Pulmonology – Respiratory Care

Department of Pulmonology at AIG Hospitals is endowed with state-of-the-art facilities at par with international standards. The branch deals majorly with diseases of airways, lungs and pleura. It also deals with Sleep Disordered Breathing, Allergy and Immunotherapy, Rehabilitation of patients with respiratory diseases. Department has other synonyms like chest medicine and respiratory medicine.

The team involves highly qualified medical doctors with passion towards providing the best comprehensive care to the patients with a holistic approach. The team provides all round clock services to the patients by teaming up with critical care, oncologists, cardiologists, internal medicine specialists, interventional radiologists and thoracic surgeons.

Areas of expertise:

• Allergy and Asthma
• COPD
• Smoking-related lung diseases
• Pneumonias [lung infections]
• TB [including drug-resistant tuberculosis i.e. MDR/XDR TB]
• ILD [interstitial lung diseases]
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Sleep-disordered breathing [obstructive sleep apnea and other complex sleep apneas]
• Pulmonary emergencies [respiratory failure and ARDS, tension pneumothorax, pulmonary embolism, foreign body obstruction and other central airway obstructions, massive hemoptysis, exacerbations of asthma, COPD and ILD etc]
• Pleural diseases [pleural effusions, pneumothorax, hemothorax, and pleural malignancies]
• Lung cancer
• Occupational lung diseases [coal workers pneumoconiosis, silicosis, asbestosis etc]
• Bronchiectasis
• Thoracic trauma/ flail chest
• Smoking cessation services
• Treatment for tracheal stenosis of any cause and other tracheal disorders.