Pulmonary & Critical Care

Access Physicians’ board-certified pulmonary & critical care specialists build and staff comprehensive ICUs. Our physicians respond as a physician would traditionally when staffed at a hospital:

• Responding to emergency department consultations.
• Admitting a patient to an ICU.
• Stabilizing critically ill patients.
• Supervising intubations and extubations.
• Performing daily rounds.
• Communicating with primary teams (hospital medicine traditionally) and nursing staff.

Our specialists also are available for dedicated pulmonary consultation and care for medical-surgical and other non-critical care patients experiencing pulmonary symptoms, such as shortness of breath, and those with pulmonary or respiratory conditions.

Cardiac Arrest Management (Code Blue)

Access Physicians pioneered the development and use of Code Blue telemedicine programs for patients experiencing cardiac arrest in 2015. This service line is staffed by highly trained physicians who are comfortable in intense situations requiring patient resuscitation.

These programs have reduced relative mortality rates by 17 percent and absolute mortality rates by 1.8 percent. Since the inception of the Code Blue programs, Access Physicians has provided on-call cardiac arrest management for more than 1 million patients.

See more about our Code Blue program.

Outpatient Pulmonology Program

Through Access Physicians’ outpatient telemedicine solutions, clinics have access to pulmonologists for initial and follow-up visits for patients with a number of lung/respiratory conditions, including:

•  COVID-19/“long COVID”
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Severe asthma
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Other lung health concerns