Pulmonary and Critical Care

Expert Care for Lung and Breathing Conditions

The pulmonary (lung) and critical care specialists at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport provide hope to our patients. Whether you need inpatient or outpatient care for your lung disease, we are ready to help. Our team offers broad-based clinical care, as well as research into new treatments for lung disorders and breathing issues.

If you or a loved one needs intensive care, you want to know that you’re getting the best care possible. Our intensive care unit (ICU) team ensures that each adult patient in our ICU is under the care of one of our intensivists. If you or a loved one is a patient at Ochsner LSU Health - Monroe Medical Center, our teleICU program ensures patients receive the support they need from our pulmonologists and intensive care specialists.

We are also the region’s only Center of Excellence for life support as recognized by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), which demonstrates our dedication to exceptional patient care.

What conditions do the pulmonary and critical care team treat?

In addition to providing general pulmonology care, our team offers the latest treatments available for lung-related conditions, including:

• Advanced pleural disease
• Asthma
• Bronchitis
• Bronchoplural fistula or BPF (an abnormal connection between the lung’s airways and the space between the membranes that line the lung)
• COPD
• Coughs
• Emphysema
• Hemoptysis (coughing of blood)
• Immunologic (relating to the body’s immune system) lung diseases (e.g., hypersensitivity pneumonitis, allergic fungal diseases, etc.)
• Lung cancer (screenings and evaluations)
• Neoplasms (abnormal tissue growths that might or might not be cancerous)
• Pneumonia and other lung infections
• Pulmonary hypertension (a form of high blood pressure in the arteries from the heart to the lungs): We offer a full range of diagnostic and treatment options.
• Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
• Sleep disorders

In addition, we offer local pre-surgical and post-surgical care if you are undergoing lung transplant surgery at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.