Respiratory Services
Our respiratory therapy team at Dunn Memorial Hospital encompasses activities in diagnostic evaluation, therapy and education. These services are overseen by our physicians, which are supported by years of education through clinical research.
Dunn Memorial Hospital requires their respiratory care practitioners to be certified or registered. Many of the therapists are also trained and hold credentials in specialty areas such as: pulmonary function testing, asthma education, sleep study diagnostics and cardiology. These individuals must meet the educational and experience requirements for the safe delivery of respiratory care services through competency validation mechanisms. These guidelines have been established by either legislative or regulatory acts of their respective states and through the credentialing of the National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC).
Our therapists perform various tests and procedures. These may include, but are not limited to:
- Respiratory therapy protocols
- Arterial blood gases
- Pulmonary function testing
- Oxygen therapy
- Aerosolized medication delivery
- Volume Expansion
- Postural drainage & percussion
- Ventilator care
- Tobacco cessation education
- Asthma education
- COPD education
- EKG’s
Dunn Memorial Lung Center
Our Mission
At the Dunn Lung Center our mission is to educate patients on various techniques and methods of controlling their lung disease, rather than it controlling them. Learning self-management tips can help lung patients live a more active, healthier lifestyle by simply improving normal daily activities.
If you have or know someone who has:
- Asthma and exercise-induced asthma
- Emphysema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- A need to quit smoking
- Other lung diseases
Our Servces:
- Adult and pediatric asthma education
- COPD education
- Tobacco Cessation Programs
Who Benefits
Anyone, at any age, with breathing problems.
Why a Lung Center?
Health Education, research and disease management come together to provide state-of-the-art services for pulmonary diseases.
Our Goals:
- To prevent and reduce lung disease.
- Educate patients and their family members about solutions to breathing problems.
- Reduce emergency room and hospital visits.
- Reduce personal suffering and family dependence.
- Improve your quality of daily living.
- Follow-up assistance.
Enrollment:
To enroll in this program, you will need a physician’s referral. If you feel you can benefit from this program, ask your physician for a referral. For more information, call the Dunn Lung Center at: (812) 276-1029.
Free FREEDOM FROM SMOKING® classes in collaboration with Community Health and Wellness Center. Please call (812)279-6222 to register or more info.
Pulmonary Clinic
The Specialty Clinic is staffed every Wednesday by a board certified pulmonologist. Drs. Dukes, Ratliff and Trueblood are lung specialists from Internal Medicine Associates in Bloomington who alternate staffing the pulmonary clinic. Procedures ordered and/or performed by the pulmonologists may include, but are not limited to:
- Consultation
- Spirometry (pre & post)
- Thoracentesis
- Bronchoscopy
Pulmonary Rehab
Dunn Memorial Hospital offers a complete Pulmonary Rehab program for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma and other disorders of the lungs which limit a person’s active lifestyle.
How will Pulmonary Rehab help you?
The benefits you will receive from Pulmonary Rehab are very real and strongly effect the quality of your life
The Benefits of Pulmonary Rehab:
- reduced need for hospitalization.
- improved exercise ability.
- enhanced quality of life.
- decreased shortness of breath and respriratory symptoms.
- decreased anxiety and depression.
- improved ability to be gainfully employed.
What will you learn from the program?
- how the lungs function
- proper breathing techniques
- understanding of medications
- relaxation techniques
- smoking cessation
- time management and energy conservation
- coping with activites of daily living
- coping with emotions of chronic illness
Harmonica and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
You don’t need to have any musical background when you perform "Harmonica-Therapy"
How does this help pulmonary (lung) function?
Anything that improves or maintains lung function also helps reduce asthma and/or COPD symptoms. The very nature of playing the harmonica facilitates deep breathing and increases lung capacity. These are both very desirable things.
Playing the harmonica mimics techniques used by respiratory therapists that teach people how to control their breathing rate and shortness of breath. It’ s a fun way to exercise your lungs. Know more...call us at 276-1220.
Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT)
- Spirometry
- Pre & post
- Complete PFT