The chest medicine department offers a host of services to patients as follows:

Pulmonary Function Laboratory

• Spirometry
• Lung volumes
• DLCO studies
• 6 min walk test
• Bronchoprovocation Test with histamine Challenge

 

Respiratory Critical Care Services.

• Lung infections like pneumonia, tuberculosis and lung abscess etc.
• Acute exacerbations of COPD and Asthma
• ARDS
• Various Interstitial Lung diseases
• Bronchoscopy

 

Management of Pleural Disorders

• Diagnostic and therapeutic pleural aspirations
• Intercostal tube insertions, pig tail catheter drainage and thoracsopy