Admission
Admission to ICU with consultation
Bronchoscopy, fiberoptic with biopsy
Bronchoscopy, rigid with biopsy
Consultation
Convergent Subxyphoid Maze
Core privileges include the procedures listed and such other procedures that are extensions of the same techniques and skills
Correction of diaphragmatic hernias, both congenital or acquired, and antireflux procedures
Decortication or pleurectomy procedures
Diagnosis
Diagnostic procedures to include cervical and mediastinal exploration, parasternal exploration, and mediastinoscopy
Evaluation
Insertion or replacement of transvenous or transthoracic cardiac pacemaker
Laser Bronchoscopy
Management of airway
Management of chest and neck trauma
Management, abnormalities of the trachea
Management, cancers of the lung, esophagus, and chest wall
Management, congenital anomalies
Management, diseases of the diaphagm
Management, illness/injury/disorders within the thoracic cavity and related structures including the chest wall
Management, tumors of the mediastinum
Operations under the esophagus to include surgery for diverticulum, as well as perforation
Ordering of diagnostic studies and procedures related to the problem or disorder
Perform history and physical exam
Pericardiocentesis, pericardial drainage procedures, pericardiectomy
Privileges include care of adult patients except as specifically excluded from practice
Procedures upon the chest wall, lungs including wedge resections, segmental resections, lobectomy, and pneumonectomy for benign or malignant disease
Pulmonary artery
Resection of rib
Resection of the esophagus for benign or malignant disease
Surgery on mediastimum for removal of benign or malignant tumors
Suture of heart wound or injury
Thoracentesis
Thoracoscopy
Thoracotomy for trauma, hemorrhage, rib biopsy, drainage of empyema or removal of foreign body
Tracheostomy
Treatment
Tube thoracostomy