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Clinical Centers	The Adult Pulmonary Diagnostic Unit (Pulmonary Function Testing) Program Director: Robert C. Basner, M.D. Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Director, Adult Pulmonary Diagnostic Unit Director, Cardiopulmonary Sleep and Ventilatory Disorders Center Address: Columbia University Medical Center 622 West 168^th Street, Ph 8 Center, Room 840, New York, NY 10032 Appointments: To make an appointment, call (212) 305-3357.
Asthma Center
Cystic Fibrosis Program
Interventional Bronchoscopy and Endobronchial Therapy Center
Jo-Ann F. LeBuhn Center for Chest Disease & Respiratory Failure
John Edsall-John Wood Asthma Center
Lung Reduction
Lung Transplantation
Medical Intensive Care Unit
Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
Pulmonary Clinic
Pulmonary Function Testing
Sleep Studies Unit
Stress Test
Tuberculosis Clinic
CPPN Physicians Network	The Pulmonary Diagnostic Unit, housed in Presbyterian Hospital adjacent to the Department of Medicine offices, provides comprehensive pulmonary function testing and arterial blood gas measurements for adult patients. Testing includes: spirometry with and without bronchodilator, and/or bronchial provocation, lung volume testing by plethysmography and nitrogen washout, lung diffusing capacity, maximal respiratory muscle pressure assessment, maximal voluntary ventilation assessment, assessment of upper airway function, assessment of neuromuscular response to neostigmine, exercise and rest pulse oximetry and arterial blood gas measurements, pre- and post-operative evaluations for transplant patients and patients undergoing other surgeries, and assessment of physiologic shunt fraction. The unit is staffed by a nursing supervisor, respiratory function technologists, and secretarial staff. A pulmonary fellow is available full time to assist in the scheduling and interpretation of these procedures. The director of the unit is Dr. Robert C. Basner, a state certified respiratory physiologist and physician with particular interest and expertise in the measurements of gas exchange and alveolar ventilation in patients with emphysema and neuromuscular disorders, and in post transplant patients. All studies are interpreted by a pulmonary fellow and attending pulmonary physician; results and interpretations are made available to the referring clinician individually as well as via Web Cis. American Thoracic Society standards for quality assurance and quality control are diligently met and documented. In patient and out patient procedures are performed 8 AM through 5 PM Monday through Friday by appointment and on an emergent basis as necessary. The Unit studies approximately 4,000 patients per year. Patients are studied without regard to payor status. The Unit also maintains an extensive educational role, and trains all pulmonary fellows at Columbia, as well as maintaining contractual arrangements to train pulmonary fellows from other major teaching institutions. All Columbia Medical Center house staff receive formal training in the pulmonary diagnostic unit.

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