Pulmonology

Pulmonary medicine department deals with various diseases of chest and lungs. It also includes management of critically ill patients on ventilator support. The department at Kanishk Hospital is managed by team of well qualified and experienced consultants and junior doctors. Doctors are specially trained and has vast experience in managing diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, COPD, ILD, pleural effusion, chest trauma, tuberculosis, emphysema, viral infections including Covid and Swine flu and complicated chest infections which often involves managing patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation.

Pulmonary medicine department at Kanishk hospital is well equipped with modern ventilators, NIV, video bronchoscope. Various diagnostic and interventional procedureslike bronchoscopy, biopsy, pleural aspiration, ICD, PFT, xray, CT scan, ultrasound, ECHO etc are being carried out on regular basis.

Pulmonary medicine department is functional 24×7 at Kanishk Hospital through emergency so that any respiratory emergency can be handled any time.

Pulmonary Function Testing

6 minutes walk test
Spirometry
Lung Volume Test
Sleep Studies / Polysomnography
Arterial Blood Gases (ABG)

Pulmonary investigation for lung pathologies

X Ray
CT Scan of chest - with & without contrast , High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT)
CT Pulmonary Angiogram
CT Guided Biopsy of Lung and Lymph Nodes
Bronchoscopy including biopsies & Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)

Treatment for all kind of pulmonary pathologies including :

Bronchial asthma & Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
allergic bronchitis & pneumonitis aspergillosis and Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (ABAB)
Tuberculosis (TB)
pulmonary fibrosis , Interstitial lung disease (ILD), Sarcoidosis
OSA sleep apnea, Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS)
various pneumonia & bronchitis (bacterial, viral, fungal ) and Others
Respiratory Tract Infections
pulmonary hypertension , pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), Core pulmonary Lung Failure
Autoimmune, genetics, hereditary & lung diseases

At KSSH, our pulmonary department is dedicated to provide all kinds of services related to pulmonology and related diseases by our Pulmonologist, expert in lung and respiratory tract diseases.