South Health Campus Pleural Diseases Clinic

The Pleural Diseases Clinic quickly sees and treats patients who have fluid around their lungs or a collapsed lung, without needing to stay in the hospital.

The clinic’s goal is to quickly find the cause of the problem, relieve symptoms, and provide advanced treatments when needed—while helping patients avoid unnecessary hospital stays.

Services Offered:

• lung ultrasound done at the bedside
• draining fluid from around the lungs using imaging for guidance
• placement and follow up of long-term drainage tubes for fluid around the lungs
• taking small tissue samples from the lining of the lung using imaging guidance
• treating certain collapsed lungs as an outpatient (available only at South Health Campus Emergency Department)
• treatments to prevent fluid from coming back around the lungs
• referrals for specialized lung procedures
• referrals to chest (thoracic) surgeons