Gibson Area Hospital & Health Services | Gibson gets it! | Spring/Summer 2020

GibsonHospital.org 8 “I’m able to get testing done here rather than travel to Indianapolis where I had my lung transplant. Now I only have to go to Indy every six months. To be honest, it would have been a lot harder for me in the beginning if I hadn’t been able to come here. It makes a difference to have people here who know what you’ve gone through and understand what you’re currently going through. You’re not just a number at Gibson. It’s on a personal level.” —Tom Stuckey, a cardiopulmonary care patient, recipient of a double lung transplant and a Gibson City community volunteer Lauri Brown, RRT, prompts Tom Stuckey through his full pulmonary function test. Stuckey received a lung transplant to heal his COPD. He now counts on GAH Cardiopulmonary Care (CPC) to perform the tests ordered by his transplant doctors in Indianapolis. Heart and lung health The cardiopulmonary care team at GAH offers: • • Pulmonary function and arterial blood gas tests. • • A test to diagnose asthma (methacholine challenge). • • Incentive spirometer measurements. • • Pulse oximetry checks and home oxygen qualification testing. • • Electrocardiograms and stress tests. • • Holter monitors for 24 to 48 hours, the Zio Patch for 3 to 14 days, and cardiac event monitors for 30 days. • • Tilt-table tests for diagnosing POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). Sleep disorders The Sleep Lab at Gibson Area Hospital (GAH) offers: • • EEG (electroencephalogram) tests while awake, drowsy and asleep. • • Home sleep tests. • • Split-night sleep studies (with and without CPAP). • • A diagnostic exam for narcolepsy (multi-sleep latency test). • • Daytime sleep studies (maintenance of wakefulness). Advanced diagnostics close to home