Respiratory Medicine
Objectives
- To impart excellent learning opportunities to MBBS and Postgraduate students.
- Render excellent and cost-effective patient services to all types of pulmonary diseases including advanced diagnostic services and treatment.
- To support National Control Programs like NTEP (National TB Elimination Programme) and National AIDS Control Program (NACO).
- To address the public health issues like COPD and Covid-19: To ensure cost-effective treatment, ensure good quality of life and occupational rehabilitation.
- To support the Government in the management of victims of disasters.
- To promote research among staff and students to the advantage of patient management and public health
Target Diseases with Expert Management
- Airway diseases: Asthma, COPD, Bronchiectasis, Small airway diseases
- Occupational Lung diseases
- Interstitial Lung disease
- Tuberculosis
- Lung infections, pneumonia and Lung abscess
- Pleural diseases – pleural effusion, pneumothorax, empyema etc.
- Lung Malignancies
- Pulmonary embolism
- Sleep disorders
- Chest wall diseases
- Covid-19 infections
- Post-Covid syndromes and Post-Covid Lung disease
- PFT/ SPIROMETRY
- Sleep study with CPAP titration
- Allergy skin prick test
- Arterial blood gas analysis
- Six minute walk test
- BRONCHOSCOPY
- Dedicated 30 bedded Pulmonology ward
- Respiratory ICU: with full fledged monitoring and Ventilatory and Oxygen support
- MDR-TB ward
- Post-Covid ward
- Pleural Procedures: pleural fluid tapping, Intercostal tube Insertion, Pig tail catheter insertion, Pleurodesis
- CT/ultrasound guided lung mass FNAC/biopsy.
- Bronchial artery embolisation
- Bronchoscopic Procedures * Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)
* Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and other pulmonary infections
* Diagnostic work up of non resolving pneumonia, unexplained cough ,collapse.
* Endobronchial and Transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB)
* Transbronchial needle aspiration(TBNA)
* Evaluation and management of haemoptysis
* Bronchoscopic foreign body removal, lung lavage diagnostic and therapeutic
- COPD Clinic – all Tuesdays
- Asthma and Allergy clinic –all Wednesdays
- Sleep clinic – all Fridays
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinic –all Thursdays (Served by Multi-disciplinary Team: Pulmonologist, Psychiatrist, respiratory therapist, dietician and trained nursing staff)
- Treatment optimization
- Exercise training
- Health education
- Psychological counseling
- Breathing techniques
- Nutritional counseling
- Occupational counseling
- Post-Covid Clinic- All Working days (Comprehensive package: served by Pulmonologist, Physician, Cardiologist, Psychiatrist & Neurologist) Investigations included in the package: (Blood inflammatory markers, RFT, LFT, electrolytes, HRCT, Spirometry, Six minute walk test, ECHO, ECG, Autonomic Function test)
