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Mercy Pulmonology - 206 Hospital Lane
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Perryville Pulmonology
Mercy Pulmonology in Perryville, MO, treats patients with problems affecting their respiratory system. The respiratory system is the network of organs and tissues that help you breathe. This network includes your airways, lungs, the muscles that power your lungs, and blood vessels. All these parts work together to move oxygen throughout your body and clean out waste gases such as carbon dioxide.
Pulmonology Services
Mercy's Pulmonology Clinic in Perryville offers a full range of respiratory therapy services. Working under the supervision of physicians, our respiratory therapists:
- Evaluate, assess, and help treat patients with sudden and ongoing diseases, infections, or viruses affecting the cardiopulmonary system, including emphysema, asthma, lung cancer, bronchitis, and pneumonia.
- Help plan, integrate, teach, evaluate, and manage breathing disorders through respirators or administering medication in aerosol form.
- Administer oxygen
- Manage noninvasive positive pressure ventilation.
- Manage ventilators and artificial airway devices for patients who can't breathe normally on their own
- Administer drugs to the lungs.
- Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation to heart attack patients, stroke victims, and other critical patients.
- Monitor cardiopulmonary systems
- Perform diagnostic tests, such as measuring lung function and capacity
- Analyze blood samples to determine levels of oxygen and other gases
- Counsel individuals about cardiopulmonary health (e.g., asthma education, smoking cessation, etc.)
- Educate patients and families about lung disease so they can maximize their recovery.
