The Pulmonary Medicine Laboratory is responsible for the diagnosis, evaluation and management of patients with problems in the respiratory system, and undertakes diagnostic procedures for proper identification of causative factors and therapeutic modalities appropriate to the diagnostic results. It also administers inhalation devices such as aerosol treatments, ultrasonic nebulization and incentive spirometers, and performs all pulmonary function laboratory procedures such as spirometry, lung volumes, diffusion, nitrogen wash out, and arterial blood gas analysis.