If you’re familiar with Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, you know that air is right there at the bottom as one of the most basic. When you can’t breathe, nothing else really matters, which is why pulmonary medicine is so vital to overall health care.

 

The Texas Institute of Chest and Sleep Disorders is a clinic dedicated to the study and treatment of lung afflictions that include acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), asbestosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, hemoptysis, obstructive sleep apnea, pleural effusion, sarcoidosis and more common illnesses such emphysema, tuberculosis, lung cancer, as well as asthma and bronchitis.