Nikhil Madan, MD, Pulmonary & Critical Care Specialist at the Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, discusses acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a severe lung inflammation that makes it difficult to breathe. Without an oxygen supply, your vital organs can be damaged and mechanical ventilation is required in an ICU under the care of our advanced lung specialists.

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Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is a 665bed quaternary care referral medical center that provides comprehensive health care for advanced lung and heart disease. Newark Beth Israel is a Top Teaching Hospital and home to one of the nation's top 15 heart transplant centers, RWJBarnabas Health's Heart Failure Treatment and Transplant Program, for heartlung transplants, and left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) implants; New Jersey's only Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Program for asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, and advanced lung care (ECMO and bronchial thermoplasty) and a Structural Heart Disease and Valve Center for complex cardiac procedures, aortic diseases, aortic repair, including minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), Mitral Clip valve repair and Watchman implants for afib. #letsbehealthytogether #NewarkBethIsraelHeartTransplant #NewarkBethIsraelLungTransplant