Pulmonary Medicine
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Institute of Pulmonary Medicine has State-of-the-Art Technology and established with the mission of providing ethical & scientific health care to the patients. This is comprehensive institute with all capabilities to take care of all the dimensions of Respiratory problems. This is one of the few centres in India that offers comprehensive care in Respiratory Medicine for Asthma to Lung Transplantation.
Services Available
- Out Patient Consultation
- Sleep Disorder Centre
- Pulmonary Function Labs
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Bronchoscopy Services
- Interventional Thoracoscopy
- Critical Care Services
- RNTCP Services
- Smoking Cessation Clinic
- Thoracic Surgery
- Bronchial Artery Embolization
- Lung Transplantation in near future – Indicated patients registration in progress
Special Clinical / Diagnostic Services
Special clinics run on daily basis for diseases like bronchial asthma, Chronic obstructive and Pulmonary disease.
- Lung Cancer Clinics
- Paediatric Respiratory Clinics
- Allergy Testing
- Myco Lab (Rapid diagnosis of Tuberculosis including culture & sensitivity)
Description of Services
Sleep Disorder Centre
One stop centre, for all sleep related problems from snoring, excessive day time sleepiness, Obstructive Sleep Apnea syndrome and Insomnia (inability to get sleep). Has 2 state of the art polysomnography (Sleep Labs), experienced Sleep Technicians & trained team (Pulmonologist, Psychiatrist, Psychologist & ENT specialist).
Pulmonary Function Labs
State of the Art Pulmonary Function labs for following test:
- Spirometry
- Exercise Testing
- Body Plethysmography
- Diffusion Capacity (DLCO)
- Co-oxymetry
- Co-Breath Analyzer
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
First and only centre in the region to offer comprehensive Pulmonary Rehab for Chronic Lung Disease patients with limitation of day to day activities.
Bronchoscopy Services
- Diagnostic, Rigid & Flexible Bronchoscopy
- Endobronchial Ultrasound
- Interventional Bronchoscopy
Interventional Thoracoscopy
- Biopsy
- Pleurodesis
Critical Care Services
- Invasive and Non-Invasive Ventilation
- Chronic Respiratory Care
Thoracic Surgery
- VATS Lung Biopsy (Open Lung biopsy)
- Pneumonectomy
- Decortication
- Pleurodesis
- Mediastinoscopy
Facilities
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) with Narrowband imaging – Olympus
- Fibroptic Bronchoscope – Paediatric / Adult – Olympus
- Video Bronchoscope system – Olympus
- Rigid Thoracoscopy system – Richard Wolf
- Rigid Bronchoscope – Adult / Paediatric – EFER DUMON
- Sleep Lab (Polysomnogram) – Respironics / Resmed
- Spirometry – Spiro scout – Ganshorn
- Spirometry – Spiro palm – Cosmed
- DLCO with helium dilution lung volumes – Ganshorn
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
- Body Plethysmography (Q Box) – Cosmed
- Pulmonary Rehab Equipments – Treadmill/ Fanbike /Ergometer (Welcare)