Mindy Benson, PNP, uses a plastic model to explain asthma to Mecca.
Pulmonary Medicine
SERVICES
• Comprehensive care for cystic fibrosis with ancillary services by pediatric dietitians, social workers, respiratory therapists and physical therapists
• Comprehensive flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy program
• Comprehensive pulmonary physiology laboratory with pulmonary function testing, exercise stress testing, hypoxic challenge, altitude simulation studies, infant pulmonary function testing, and bronchoprovocation testing
• Comprehensive sleep study laboratory with pediatric polysomnography
• Management of patients requiring chronic respiratory support (long-term invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, chronic oxygen therapy, tracheostomies).
Additional Programs
• Asthma education in the community: a variety of community outreach programs, including visiting doctors in their offices to help them better understand asthma, and classes for patients and families dealing with problems related to asthma
• Home ventilator program
• Nationally certified cystic fibrosis program: certified for cystic fibrosis care nationally through the CF Foundation and at the state level through California Children’s Services (CSS). We work closely with the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center at California Pacific Medical Center and lung transplant centers in the Bay Area. We are a site for multicenter research in CF.
• RSV prevention: annual clinic to facilitate monthly injections of the Synagis vaccine and other RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) preventive medications.
• Sleep Clinic for evaluation of any sleep-disordered breathing.
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