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Our Respiratory Care team at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is part of the Pulmonary & Cystic Fibrosis Center, which provides a wide range of services for children with pulmonary and respiratory disorders.

Some of the services our team offers includes:

• Mechanical ventilation, both conventional and high frequency
• Aerosol therapy (medicated and non-medicated)
• Bronchopulmonary hygiene techniques:
  • Conventional CPT
  • Mechanical vibrator vest
  • Flutter therapy
  • IPV therapy
• Oxygen therapy
• Humidity therapy
• Inhaled nitric oxide therapy
• Oximetry (spot checks, sleep oximetry)
• Capnography (continuous and spot checks)
• Airway management and care (suctioning, oral and nasal airways)
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency airway management
• Diagnostic techniques:
  
  • Bronchoscopy assisting
  • Sputum induction
• Patient/parent instruction of all respiratory care modalities, as ordered by the physician
• Acute care transport (inter-hospital and intra-hospital)
• Cardiopulmonary research