The Department of CHEST AND TB at Lokpriya Hospital is a state of the art department representing high standards of Pulmonary Care. It comprises reputed Physicians from various parts of the city having impeccable record in regards to practicing methods and patient care. The Department takes pride in imparting their knowledge and experience including recent advances in Pulmonary Care.
The speciality of Chest Medicine deals with a gamut of diseases that involve the lungs, airways, mediastinum, pleura, diaphragm and the chest wall. Not only thoracic, but disorders that affect the breathing indirectly like neuromuscular disorders, sleep disorders are also part of the speciality. The diseases commonly encountered are Asthma, Bronchiectasis, Tuberculosis, Pneumonias, Chest traumas, Pneumothorax, Pleural effusions, Mediastinal lymphadenopathy, Lung cancer, Sleep disorders, Allergies, and Respiratory failure due to various causes.
Our department is well equipped to deal with preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, emergency and rehabilitative aspects of Chest Medicine to provide quality and comprehensive care for our patients which is comparable to the best in the world.
· Ultrasound Guided Pleural Fluid Tapping:
· Sputum analysis
· Fibreoptic Bronchoscopes
· Bronchoalveolar lavage
· Biopsies
· Foreign body removal
· Stenting
· Therapeutic bronchoalveolar lavage
· Pulmonary Function Test
· Spirometry
· Spirometry with Diffusion studies
· Spirometry with Lung volumes
· Complete PFT
· Lung biopsies
· Pleurodesis – Mechanical & Chemical Pleurodesis.
Daily outpatient and round the clock inpatient services are available. Respiratory diseases such as obstructive airway disease (bronchial asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis), interstitial lung disease, pulmonary vasculitis (Wegener's granulomatosis, systemic lupus erythematosus etc), eosinophilic lung disease (Tropical eosinophilia, eosinophilic pneumonias), lung infections (bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis), lung cancers, pleural diseases (pleural effusion empyemas, mesotheliomas) and chest well diseases (Kyphoscoliosis) are examples of diseases treated.
Emergency and intensive care services are available 24*7 for respiratory failure due to acute asthma, COPD exacerbation, pneumothorax, massive hemoptysis, chest wall trauma, severe pneumonias, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) etc. Emergency bronchoscopies for diagnostic (lavage, biopsies) and therapeutic purposes and routinely carried out in ICU via endotracheal or tracheostomy tubes.
NIV using CPAP and bilevel devices for COPD, neuromuscular disease with respiratory failure, sleep apnoea is offered by the department as part of inpatient and outpatient services. NIV for respiratory failure is given in the high dependency unit or ICU as part of treatment and for early weaning from the ventilator.
