Children's Hospital

Pediatric Pulmonary Function Laboratory

Respiratory Technician
Deborah Kotmair, RRT

The University of Maryland Pediatric Pulmonary Function Laboratory is a modern and full-service facility that opened in downtown Baltimore in 2006. The laboratory is located within the Pediatric Multispecialty Clinic at the University of Maryland Children's Hospital (UMCH).

It provides diagnostic testing including:

Spirometry
Spirometry after bronchodilation
Flow-volume loops
Single breath diffusion capacity (DLCO)
Body plethysmography
Pulse oximetry
Cardiopulmonary exercise test
Exercise provocation test
Methacholine challenge
Maximal inspiratory/expiratory pressures

These services are available to all patients of specialists and primary care physicians within the hospital and physicians in the community.

To arrange an appointment, please call 410-328-6523.
For the Pediatric Pulmonary and Allergy department, please call 410-706-2443.

This page was last updated on: May 10, 2011.

For more information about UMCH or to make an appointment, please call 1-866-408-6885 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).