Department of Pulmonary Medicine

Overview

Pulmonary medicine is a broad specialty in medicine dealing with diseases affecting the lungs, like Asthma, COPD, Pneumonia, T B. It also deals with critical care and sleep medicine. Our department is tertiary referrae centre equipped with fiber optic video bronchoscope, spirometer, USG and higher imaging modalities.

We manage patients with common respiratory ailments and help to establish diagnosis in suspected cases of lung cancer

Services

• 24 HOURS EMERGENCY UNIT
• WELL- EQUIPPED INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
• ASTHAMA CLINIC
• COPD CLINIC
• SLEEP RELATED DISORDERS
• 6 MINUTES WALK TEST
• PULMONARY FUNCTION TEST/ SPIROMETRY
• NON INVASIVIE AND INVASIVE VENTILATORS
• DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPUTIC PLEURAL PROCEDURES.
• THORACIC ULTRASOUND AND GUIDED INTERVENTIONS
• FFNAC / BIOPSY

Vision

• Improve the quality of life patients with chronic respiratory diseases. We are working in tandem with government to eliminate TB; as part of the National TB elimination programme.

Facilities

• Spirometry
• Fiber optic video bronchoscopy.
• CT/ USG guided FNAC and lung Biopsy.