Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
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Overview
Breathing is easy to take for granted - unless you are a child who lives with a chronic respiratory illness. Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine provides comprehensive care for children with common to complex conditions including asthma, recurrent pneumonia, chronic cough, infant apnea, cystic fibrosis and congenital and acquired airway problems. There also are programs for children with sleep-disordered breathing or children requiring lung transplantation or home mechanical ventilation.
Specialty highlights
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is one of only a few pediatric hospitals in the world that has two board-certified sleep specialists. Infants, children and adolescents are evaluated in our pediatric Sleep Center. A state-of-the-art sleep laboratory is available for children requiring more extensive evaluation.
- The Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at Children's Hospital is accredited by the national Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The center follows 240 children and adults, including infants detected through the Wisconsin newborn screening program.
- Specialists staff a state-of-the-art pulmonary function laboratory at Children's Hospital, which includes exercise and methacholine challenges and measurement of exhaled nitric oxide (a marker of airway inflammation). It is one of only a few programs in the country to offer adult-type pulmonary function tests for infants.
- Pulmonary physicians have cared for 21 children who have undergone lung transplantation at Children's Hospital since in 1994. The first lung transplantation for a child with Gaucher's disease was done here.
- The Tracheostomy/Ventilator Clinic at Children's Hospital provides a team approach for the care of children with a variety of medical conditions.
Bi-monthly multidisciplinary clinics are held in a single location with pulmonary, otolaryngology, respiratory therapy, nutrition, social work and nursing case management.
- Fiberoptic bronchoscopy is available as an outpatient procedure to evaluate a child's airway anatomy or to obtain cultures to try to identify an infection. Approximately 200 bronchoscopies are done each year.
 Four pulmonary specialists are listed in the 2007-2008 Best Doctors in America® database. The 40,000 U.S. physicians who make the list represent the top 3 to 5 percent of the nation's practicing board-certified physicians.
Research
- Pulmonary researchers have completed the first large-scale U.S. study of asthma among rural children and found that living on a farm is associated with less asthma. Studies are in progress to determine factors unique to a farm that may help prevent children from getting asthma.
- Thomas Feroah, PhD, and Lynn D'Andrea, MD, have received NIH funding to investigate issues of breathing control related to sleep-wake states or mechanisms of upper airway obstruction in children, respectively.
- Several NIH-funded studies are in progress with collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying the risks and benefits of newborn screening for cystic fibrosis. Aparna Rao, MD, is investigating early detection of bacterial infections in children with cystic fibrosis.
- Hari Bandla, MD, received the first educational grant from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation to fund research to develop educational tools for the advancement of sleep medicine education for medical trainees.
Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine Team
Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine provides the highest quality of pulmonary services for children with a variety of common to complex pulmonary and sleep disorders. The group includes physicians, fellows-in-training, research associates and nurses. All physicians are board certified in Pulmonary Medicine.
- Click here to view a listing of pulmonologists, including their specialties and bios.
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