Dr. Kenneth Gerald Torrington M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
2200 Bergquist Dr Lackland TX, 78236About
Dr. Kenneth Torrington practices Pulmonology in Lackland, TX. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Torrington manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
University of Nebraska College of Medicine 1972
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bronchoscopy training and competency: how many are enough?
- Acute pancreatitis in patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
- Family member presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a survey of US and international critical care professionals.
- Patient-induced pulmonary embolism.
- Lung cancer-elapsed time from suspicious radiograph to treatment: how fast is fast enough?
- Errors in sheep carboxyhemoglobin measurements.
- Recurrent high-altitude illness associated with right pulmonary artery occlusion from granulomatous mediastinitis.
- Perioperative respiratory therapy (PORT). A program of preoperative risk assessment and individualized postoperative care.
- Solitary cystic schwannoma.
- Superior vena cava syndrome.
- Superior vena cava syndrome.
- Rapid appearance of rheumatoid pleural effusion.
- Rapid appearance of rheumatoid pleural effusion.
- Herbicide exposure and pulmonary disease.
- Diagnosis of lymphangitic carcinomatosis by transbronchial lung biopsy.
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