AAI 2022

Pulmonary means “pertaining to the lungs”. If someone has a lung disease that means they have pulmonary disease and that may be affect their ability to breathe well.  A lung disease or pulmonary disease is often treats us by a pulmonologist including the treating of lung and breathing issues ranging from asthma to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to lung cancer. Pulmonologists perform lung procedures such as bronchoscopy, a procedure that allows a medical professional to visualize the inside of lungs, but they do not perform lung surgeries.

Pulmonary disorder cause some major conditions affecting lung and breathing such as :

Asthma

Acute and chronic bronchitis

Bronchiectasis due to cystic fibrosis

Lung cancer

Pneumonia

Pulmonary embolism

Sleep apnea

Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD)

Pulmonary hypertension

Emphysema

Sarcoidosis

Bronchiectasis due to cystic fibrosis.

Critical care also known as intensive care, the specialized care taken for those patients whose conditions are life- threatening and who requires constant monitoring and comprehensive care usually in intensive care units. By a coordinated team intensive care should be taken for critically ill patients. Intensivist sometimes referred to us as an critical care specialist who provide us the primary care.