PULMONOLOGY
The Dept. of Pulmonology offers following services:
Pulmonary Function Laboratory
- Spirometry with Flow – volume loop
- Post bronchodilator testing
- Lung volumes
- DLCO studies
- 6 minute walk test
- Impulse Oscillometry
ALLERGY: Diagnosis & Management
- Skin Prick Testing
- In-vitro allergy testing
- CRD (Component resolved diagnostics for allergy)
- Allergen immunotherapy
- Guidance on life style modifications & allergen avoidance \
- Inhaler education
SLEEP APNEA: Diagnosis & Management
- Polysomnogrpahy
- Sleep study
- Overnight pulse-oximetry
- CPAP titration study
- Drug Induced sleep endoscopy
BRONCHOSCOPY: Diagnostic & Therapeutic
- Single-Use Flexible Bronchoscopy (SUFB) for Broncho-Alveolar Lavage(BAL)
- Reusable Flexible Bronchoscopy for Broncho-Alveolar Lavage (BAL)
- Bronchoscopic endobronchial biopsy
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (Linear EBUS – TBNA)
- Tracheobronchomalacia study
- Trans-Bronchial lung biopsy
- Bronchoscopic lung cryobiopsy
- Endobronchial tumor debulking
- Bronchoscopic cryodebulking/ cryoextraction
- Balloon Bronchosplasty
- Airway stenting
- Bronchoscopic management of airway bleeding/ haemoptysis
- Airway Foreign body removal
- Pediatric flexible bronchoscopy
PLEURAL DISEASE: Diagnosis & Management
- Medical Thoracoscopy : diagnostic & therapeutic
- Diagnostic and therapeutic pleural aspirations
- Intercostal tube insertions, pig tail catheter drainage
- Indwelling Pleural Catheter insertion
- VATS decortication