Infrastructure Pulmonary Medicine
Facilities
- There are beds for undergraduate teaching activities Pulmonary Function Test
- Department is running Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program- DOTs Center for Tuberculosis.
- Diagnostic & Therapeutic procedures done are-
- Pleural Tapping,
- Pleural Biopsy
- Chest Tube Insertion (under water seal drainage)
- Lung Fine Needle Aspiration
- -CT guided true-cut biopsy of lung
- -Pulmonary Function Test
- -Flexible Fibroptic Bronchoscopy
- -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:
- Asthma & COPD
- Future Obesity & Sleep Apnea