Treatment & Expertise

1) Pulmonary care - Outpatient and Inpatient care of spectrum of patients with Respiratory diseases including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of -

1. Airways Diseases e.g. Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, COPD, Bronchiectasis etc.
2. Interstitial Lung diseases
3. Pleural diseases such as Pleural effusion and Pneumothorax
4. Lung Cancer
5. Pulmonary vascular diseases
6. Smoking cessation
7. Perioperative care of patients with Lung diseases
8. Respiratory care of patients with chronic neuromuscular diseases
9. Sleep related breathing disorders
10. Tuberculosis/infectious diseases of the lung

2) Pulmonary Function Lab

1. Pulmonary Function test – Spirometry
2. PFT with post Bronchodilator therapy
3. Diffusion Study
4. Lung Volumes
5. Maximum Inspiratory and expiratory pressure for Neuromuscular disorders
6. Six minute walk test
7. Peak Expiratory Flow rate (PEFR)

3) Bronchoscopy Suite

1. Various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are done with Fibre optic and rigid Bronchoscope
2. Diagnostic video-Bronchoscopy with BAL
3. Trans-bronchial Biopsy (TBB)
4. Trans-bronchial Lung Biopsy (TBLB)
5. Bronchoscopic foreign body removal
6. Tracheal dilatation and or stenting
7. Electro-cauterization of Growth
8. Medical Thoracoscopy for evaluation and treatment of pleural diseases
9. Endo bronchial ultrasound (EBUS) for diagnosis and staging of mediastinal adenopathy

4) Sleep Lab

1. 32 channel poly-somnography available for
2. Diagnostic and Titration sleep study
3. Multiple sleep Latency test (MSLT)
4. 5) Interventional Pulmonology
5. Emerging field in pulmonary medicine which deals with use of advance diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to treat various benign, cancerous and pleural diseases.

6) Specialty Clinics:

1. Asthma/ COPD
2. Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
3. Sleep Clinic in association with ENT and Psychiatrist
4. Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic in association with cardiologist