Infectious Disease Specialists to Help You Heal
The infectious disease specialists at AdventHealth Hendersonville, focus on outpatient and hospitalized patients consulting on a range of infections including orthopedic infections, HIV disease, cellulitis and pneumonia. They perform complex inpatient and outpatient infectious disease consultations, outpatient HIV and infusion care.
Care for Infectious Diseases Services We Offer
The infectious disease doctors at AdventHealth Hendersonville, may admit, evaluate, diagnose, provide consultation to, and provide care to patients of all ages except where specifically excluded from practice, with acute and chronic infectious or suspected infectious or immunologic diseases, underlying diseases that predispose to unusual severe infections, unclear diagnoses, uncommon diseases and complex or investigational treatments. Privileges include but are not limited to management of infections caused by virus, fungi, bacteria, parasites, rickettsia, mycoplasma and HIV, or chlamydia. Procedures include but are not limited to:
- Application and interpretation of diagnostic tests
- Aspiration of superficial abscess
- Lumbar puncture
- Interpretation of Gram's stain
Internal Medicine Privileges
- Cholecystitis
- Hepatitis
- Human immunodeficiency virus
- Meningitis - encephalitis
- Myocarditis
- Pancreatitis
- Pericarditis
- Pneumonia, uncomplicated
- Pneumonia, complicated
- Pyelonephritis