Pediatric pulmonologists treat a variety of respiratory disorders in children. Physicians in this subspecialty often provide care to patients with lung-related illnesses from the time of birth through 21 years. Pediatric pulmonologists specialize in the following conditions: chronic cough or...
Pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons provide preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative surgical care to patients under the age of 18 with structural abnormalities involving the heart and major blood vessels. Includes correction or treatment of various conditions of the heart and related blood...
Pediatric cardiology is a subspecialty of pediatrics focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of heart problems in infants, children, and young adults. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), pediatric cardiologists are physicians who have completed training in pediatrics with...
Pediatric anesthesiology is a subspecialty of anesthesiology that is concerned with providing anesthesia care for neonates, infants, children, and adolescents undergoing a wide variety of surgical, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures. The subspecialty is also concerned with pain management,...
Pediatricians are physicians specializing in the physical, emotional, and social health of children from birth to young adulthood. Pediatric care encompasses a broad spectrum of health services ranging from preventive care to the diagnosis and treatment of acute and...
Pathologists diagnose, rule out, and monitor disease using information from microscopic examination of tissue specimens, cell samples, and body fluids, as well as from clinical laboratory tests on body fluids and secretions in a lab setting. After analyzing lab tests and interpreting the results...
Pain medicine is the multidisciplinary subspecialty that concentrates on the management of patients suffering from acute or chronic pain, or pain in patients requiring palliative care. The practice of pain medicine involves the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of persons with chronic...
An otolaryngologist, sometimes referred to as an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) physician, manages and treats adult and pediatric patients who have diseases and disorders of the ear, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck.
Core privileges are those procedures or privileges...
Orthopedics is the medical specialty that focuses on injuries and diseases of the musculoskeletal system, which includes bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and nerves. Common procedures performed by orthopedic surgeons include arthroscopy, bone fusion, internal fixation, joint...
