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If your breathing has become a struggle, Methodist Hospitals Respiratory Therapy Services is here to provide comprehensive testing, therapy, support, and education to alleviate and enhance the outcomes of lung conditions and diseases. Our team of licensed respiratory therapists are highly skilled in assessing, treating, and supporting patients with various breathing disorders.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Using state-of-the-art treatments, our compassionate respiratory therapists routinely show patients how to reduce and control the physical complications of their disease. By following our specialized program, they often help those same patients to shorten their hospital stays.

Methodist Hospitals respiratory therapists approach patient care with very specific goals in mind, including preventing and reducing the severity of lung disease, as well as educating patients and their families about effective solutions to breathing problems. In addition to precluding ER and hospital visits, they also strive to lessen personal suffering and diminish reliance on family members for care while improving the quality of daily living.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation is a medically supervised program for patients with these chronic lung conditions:

• Asthma
• Acute or Chronic Bronchitis
• Emphysema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Post-Covid Respiratory Issues
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Lung Cancer
• Lung Transplantation
• Chronic Lung Disease
• Sarcoidosis
• Pulmonary Hypertension

For more information about Pulmonary Rehabilitation, please call 219-738-1075.

Pulmonary Function Testing

Advanced technologies, including the Platinum Elite™ Comprehensive Body Plethysmograph and CPFS/D USB™ Spirometer, are employed by licensed respiratory therapists to perform a wide range of Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT):

• Adult and Pediatric Pulmonary Function Screening
• Adult Complete Pulmonary Function
• Mannitol Test
• Methacholine Challenge
• FeNO Testing
• Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Testing
• Zephyr Valve Replacement Screening
• 6-minute Walk Test
• Arterial Blood Gas Analysis

PFT are useful in assessing treatment options for chronic lung conditions, measuring the effectiveness of medications, checking lung function before surgical procedures, as well as diagnose certain lung diseases.

Call Methodist Hospitals Central Scheduling at 219-981-5440 to arrange your Pulmonary Function Testing.

Home Sleep Tests

Obstructive sleep apnea affects half of all cardiovascular disease patients, doubling their risk of stroke and sudden cardiac arrest, and amplifying the likelihood of death from cardiovascular disease by 500 percent.

Methodist Hospitals respiratory therapists use an innovative diagnostic home sleep apnea test, WatchPAT™ 300, to accurately and reliably test for sleep apnea. It measures peripheral arterial tone signals in a patient’s own home without bulky, uncomfortable air-flow equipment.

Home Sleep Tests can be arranged through Methodist Hospitals Central Scheduling at 219-981-5440.