DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AND PROCEDURES DONE
PULMONARY FUNTION TESTS – diagnosis and monitoring various pulmonary diseases
Spirometry and 6 Minute Walk Test
Arterial Blood Gas analysis
SKIN PRICK TEST – Identifying the causative agents allergen in allergic disorders like asthma, allergic rhinitis.
SLEEP STUDY(POLYSOMNOGRAPHY) AND CPAP TITRATION- Evaluation of sleep related breathing disorders like obstructive sleep apnea
FIBROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY:
Visualisation of airway and bronchial tree
Bronchial washing and Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL)
Bronchial brushing
Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (TBNA)
Transbronchial lung biopsy( C-ARM guided biopsy)
Transbronchial Lung Biopsy (TBLB)
APC probe to control bleeding
THORARCIC ULTRASOUND:
For lung and pleural imaging in critically ill patients
Ultrasound guided procedures like pleural aspiration, intercostal drainage placement.
PLEUROSCOPY AND MEDICAL THORACOSCOPY
INVASIVE AND NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION (CPAP,BiPAP)
RIGID BRONCHOSCOPY FOR TRACHEAL DILATATION, Stenting, and foreign body removal etc
SPECIALITIES
- Evaluation and management of Non Resolving Pneumonia.
- Difficult Asthma – Evaluation and treatment including anti Ig E therapy
- Severe COPD management and Rehabilitation
- Snoring and Sleep apnea – Clinical evaluation along with sleep study for evaluation of snoring and sleep apnea, and CPAP titration
- Pleural diseases –
- Image guided pleural interventions with self-retaining pleural catheter
Intrapleural fibrinolysis for septated pleural effusions
Talc Pleurodesis for persistent pleural effusions and recurrent pneumothorax
Image guided pleural biopsies
Pleuroscopy and pleural biopsy
Smoking cessation – Counselling and pharmacotherapy - Interstitial lung Disease (ILDs) – Evaluation and Management
RESPIRATORY EMERGENCIES
Well-equipped Intensive care unit provides state-of-the art management for all respiratory emergencies including the following:
- Acute respiratory failure including H1N1 and related viral pneumonia and ARDS
- Sepsis and ARDS
- COPD and asthma exacerbations
- Acute respiratory failure
- Acute pulmonary embolism
- Bronchial artery embolization for Massive haemoptysis