Facilities

DLCO
Critical Care
  • Dedicated Respiratory ICU with high end ventilators

  • Arterial line/central line placement

  • Non-invasive ventilation (BiPAP, CPAP)

  • Critical care ultrasound (POCUS)

  • High-flow oxygen by nasal cannula (HFNC)

  • Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT)

Sleep Medicine
  • State-of-the-art Sleep Lab
  • Diagnostic sleep studies
  • Manual scoring and manual titration with CPAP, Bilevel PAP, AVAPS, ASV
Pulmonary Function Lab
  • Spirometry- SVC, FVC, MVV
  • Diffusion studies (DLCO)
  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET)
  • 6 MWT, Incremental shuttle walk test
Allergy Lab
  • Skin Prick Test
  • Immunotherapy
Interventional Pulmonology
Flexible bronchoscopy and EBUS
  • Routine procedures: bronchoscopic alveolar lavage (BAL), endobronchial needle aspiration (EBNA), endobronchial biopsy (EBB), transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB)
  • Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration
  • Convex EBUS-TBNA
Thoracoscopy
  • Diagnostic & therapeutic thoracoscopy with pleural biopsy (Rigid in place of semi rigid)
  • VATS (CTVS department)
Ultrasound guided lung FNAC, Biopsies and Thoracocentesis
ICTD and percutaneous biopsies

Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) test to diagnose inflammation in Asthma and decide the type of therapy. Also helpful for monitoring the Asthma severity and effects of the treatment.

Forced Oscillometery Test (FOT) to measure the lung functions in children, sick patients and where Spirometry can not be performed. Helps in early diagnosis of lung diseases.