Infrastructure Pulmonary Medicine

Facilities

  1. There are beds for undergraduate teaching activities Pulmonary Function Test
  2. Department is running Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program- DOTs Center for Tuberculosis.
  3. Diagnostic & Therapeutic procedures done are-
  4. Pleural Tapping,
  5. Pleural Biopsy
    1. Chest Tube Insertion (under water seal drainage)
    2. Lung Fine Needle Aspiration
    3. -CT guided true-cut biopsy of lung
    4. -Pulmonary Function Test
    5. -Flexible Fibroptic Bronchoscopy
    6. -Sleep Apnea Lab

Equipments:

Spirometry : Done for diagnostic & follow up in patients of Bronchial asthma, COPD, Interstitial Lung Diseases

Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope: Diagnostic for lung cytology, endobronchial biopsy etc.

Sleep Apnea Study: Done in Obese, snorer patients to diagnose sleep apnea syndrome.

Specialty clinic:

  1. Asthma & COPD
  2. Future Obesity & Sleep Apnea