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The pulmonary division
includes:
- The Pediatric
Pulmonary Center
- The Cystic Fibrosis
(CF) Center
- The Sleep Clinic
The Pulmonary division
is comprised of:
- Nine full-time
academic pediatric pulmonologists, including the director and associate
director of the PPC
- Six nurses and
advanced practice nurses
- Two dietitians
- Two social workers
The Pulmonary division:
- Conducts four
half-day general outpatient clinics per week
- Sleep clinic
- Asthma clinic
- Manages approximately
nine inpatients and six consults per day
- Consults on more
than 160 additional patients annually in outreach clinics in Alaska,
Idaho, Montana, and Washington (consultations performed both by PPC
trainees and PPC faculty)
- Performs fifty
flexible bronchoscopy procedures per year
- Interprets more
than 1600 pulmonary functions in infants and children per year
The Cystic Fibrosis
Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital:
- Manages 220 children
with cystic fibrosis
- Indirectly oversees
clinical care of another 240 adults and children with cystic fibrosis
at satellite sites located in:
- Spokane
- Tacoma
- Anchorage
- The University
of Washington Health Sciences Center’s Adult Cystic Fibrosis
Center.
The Pulmonary division
at CHMC conducts specific additional clinical programs involving children
with respiratory problems. These include:
- The Respiratory
Home Care Program, which manages the care of technology-dependent children
- The Neuromuscular
Disease Program administrated by the Rehabilitation Medicine Department,
which cares for the pulmonary aspects of children with neuromuscular
weakness
- The Asthma Education
Program conducted by CHRMC-based pulmonary nurses. This program provides
formal longitudinal asthma education to children hospitalized for asthma
and their families.
- Two formal Parent
Support Groups to empower parents whose children have CF and chronic
technology-dependent lung disease.
The Pulmonary division
conducts clinical research at CHRMC. Examples of active clinical research
projects conducted by the PPC faculty are as follows:
- Inhaled nitric
oxide for newborn pulmonary hypertension (Redding, Mayock, Co-PI's)
- Intravenous immunoglobulin
as prevention for RSV infections (Redding, PI)
- Asthma epidemiology
in Seattle's public schools (Redding, PI)
- Outcome predictors
for children recovering from status asthmaticus (Redding, PI)
- Community systems
of care for underserved urban children with asthma (Redding, PI)
- Nutritional outcomes
for infants with BPD after discharge to home (Johnson, PI)
- Parent support
systems for high risk families of asthmatic children (Miller-Ratcliffe,
PI)
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