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Pulmonary Critical Care

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Pulmonary critical care is a specialized field of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic respiratory diseases. This includes asthma, COPD, respiratory failure, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, and other respiratory illnesses.

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