Pulmonology

While primary care doctors can treat mild or short-term lung conditions, such as those caused by a cold or a respiratory infection, pulmonologists are consulted to diagnose, treat, and manage more complex illnesses affecting the lungs.

• Chest pain or tightness in the chest
• Feeling dizzy, lightheaded, or fainting
• Difficulty in breathing, especially during exercise
• Wheezing
• Fatigue
• Cold that is impacting your respiratory system (recurring or chronic bronchitis).
• Asthma that isn't well-controlled, or has unidentified triggers.

The Department of Pulmonology has state-of-art facility offering advanced diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for a wide range of chest and respiratory diseases. The department comprises highly qualified, skilled, and experienced Consultant in the fields of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep disorder medicine. We offer primary and second opinion consultations for outpatients and inpatients for respiratory diseases, interstitial lung diseases, and airway disorders like asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis and pulmonary hypertension. Services such as comprehensive pulmonary function testing, ICU care, and round-the-clock respiratory therapy, and a sleep disorders Unit is available to our patients.

The specialist in our team understand the disruption faced by our patients when healthcare needs arise in their busy lives. With a patient-first approach for medical care, our team adapts treatment plans that work with your situation and coordinates internally to maximize every outpatient visit.

Treatments and procedures offered at the Department of Pulmonology:

• Pulmonary function testing (PFT).
• Evaluation and management of allergies.
• Asthma – Diagnosis and training of inhaler technique.
• Bronchoscopic procedures like diagnostic bronchoscopy, biopsies, and broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL).
• Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis – Diagnosis, management and MDR.
• Evaluation and management of benign and malignant lesions of the lungs and the respiratory tract.
• Ventilator management.
• Community acquired Pneumonia.
• Home continuous positive airway pressure (home CPAP) and home bi-level positive airway pressure (home BiPAP).

PULMONORY FUNCTION LABORATORY

• Spirometry
• Sleep lab
• Polysomnography
• Flexible bronchoscopic procedure
• Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy
• Broncho alvelor lavage
• Endobronchial biopsy
• Endobronchial
• Needle aspiration
• Transbronchial biopsy
• Transbronchial needle aspiration