Clinical Services
Center for Acute Respiratory Failure
Who We Treat
The Center for Acute Respiratory Failure at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center offers advanced care for adult patients who rapidly develop severe respiratory failure due to:
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Pneumonia
- Trauma, including direct injury to the lungs
- Sepsis (blood infection)
- Acute episodes of asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Emphysema
- Chronic bronchitis
- Cystic fibrosis
- Bronchiecstasis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Interstitial lung disease
- Acute and chronic pulmonary thromboembolic disease
- Other less common illnesses
