Pulmonary Rehabilitation
AACVPR Program Certification is the only peer-reviewed accreditation process designed to review individual facilities for adherence to standards and guidelines developed and published by the AACVPR and other professional societies.
Shasta Regional Medical Center Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program is accredited by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
Shasta Regional Medical Center offers a comprehensive and organized approach to help effectively address the special needs of living with a chronic respiratory disease. Pulmonary rehabilitation benefits those with lung disease including emphysema, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, COPD, pre/post lung transplant, post-op lung surgery, among other conditions.
The rehabilitation program strives to help control the symptoms of the disease including as well as regain as much independence as possible in living everyday life.
For further information, contact us at 530-244-8269
At Shasta Regional Medical Center, patients are offered the tools and techniques to help them achieve a higher quality of life through a structured education process. Topics range from your disease and how to live with it to breathing techniques you can do to make daily activities easier. Evaluations and counseling on reducing emotional stress, home care and appropriate nutrition are offered as well.
A multidisciplinary team made up of a respiratory therapist, pharmacist, physical therapist and social worker guides progress under the medical direction of a pulmonary physician.
Pulmonary Function Test
(For Children and Adults)
Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT’s) are tests measuring air movement, volumes, pressures and gas diffusion from lungs to blood stream. The simplest form of a PFT is spirometry, whereas a complete PFT, (CPFT) includes spirometry with diffusion study and body plethysmography. These tests provide objective data to make a reliable diagnosis of the lung disease along with monitoring the progression of the lung disease. The tes8ng can also determine your ability to tolerate surgery and medical procedures. Your physician may order a bronchodilator, (Albuterol), to iden8fy if there is reversibility in your airway disease. PFT information can help choose the correct course of therapy and treatment to improve your breathing or to monitor certain medications that can affect your lungs.
Diagnostic Tests
- Spirometry – Without or with bronchodilator, (Albuterol treatment with a repeat test), A simple PFT measures air flows and volumes with maximal efforts
- Plethysmography (body Box) – Airway Resistance and Thoracic Gas Volume
- DLCO – Diffusing Capacity
- CPFT – Complete Pulmonary Function Test, (A Full PFT with Spirometry, Plethysmography, and DLCO)
- MIP/MEP – Maximum Inspiratory and Expiratory Pressure
- ABG – Arterial Blood Gas
- 6 Minutes Walk
Indications
- Indications
- COPD
- Asthma
- Chronic Cough
- Dyspnea/Shortness of Breath
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pre-Surgical Evaluation
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Sarcoidosis
- Wheezing
- Lung Nodule
- Bronchiectasis
- Pneumoconiosis
- Bronchitis
PFT Referrals and Appointments
Scheduling – Telephone: 530-229-2899
Fax orders to 530-244-5185 (Request our Pulmonary Function Order Form)
Contact Us
To learn more about our PFT testing please call the Pulmonary Lab at 530-244-5160. Please leave us a message if necessary and we will return your call.
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