Department of Pulmonology at Lifeline Tulasi Hospital 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.
Pulmonary function testing includes a broad range of tests that measure how well the lungs take in and exhale air and how efficiently they transfer oxygen into the blood. The 3 main pulmonary function tests are spirometry, lung volume measurement, and diffusion capacity testing. Each of these tests provides different information about the health and functioning of the lungs and aids in the diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory diseases.
Plethysmography is a painless procedure that measures total lung capacity (how much air the lungs can hold). This type of test is especially helpful in evaluating restrictive lung diseases, in which a person cannot inhale a normal volume of air. Restrictive lung diseases may be caused by inflammation or scarring of lung tissue or by abnormalities in the muscles or skeleton of the chest wall.
Shortness of breath may be caused by impaired functioning of your lungs or your heart. State-of-the-art cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) allows your physician to make that distinction on-site.Your physician may order CPET for any number of reasons. For example, you may undergo CPET as a precaution before surgery. If you have heart or lung disease, CPET can also help your physician determine what level of exercise is appropriate for you and whether you need to use oxygen during exercise.
