Pulmonology
People suffering from respiratory illness often find it very difficult to breathe without any effort. Most of the time, lung diseases affect your independence thereby reducing the quality of life. We are concerned about your health and so Nivik Hospital offer the best set of pulmonologists for your care.
The Department of Pulmonology has a team of surgeons and physicians who are trained from renowned institutions and provide the best of treatments to all patients suffering from respiratory disorders. Nivik Hospital aim at helping every individual to breathe to their fullest without any difficulty.
The wards and consultation rooms are well equipped with all the advanced machinery for the treatment of the patients. The department is well staffed with nurses and technicians to perform the procedures with ease.
The scope of services
- Pulmonary medicine/ Chest or Respiratory medicine
- Interventional Pulmonology
- Sleep-related breathing disorders
Get treatment for concerns:
- Lung infections like tuberculosis and other bacterial pneumonias
- Viral infections affecting the lungs like swine flu, COVID-19, SARS
- Acute allergic and non allergic bronchitis
- Reactive airway diseases
- Bronchial asthma
- It is difficult to treat asthma or severe asthma. Expert advice on biologicals
- COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and other smoking related lung disease
- Smoking prevention and cessation counselling
- Interstitial lung disease (ILD) and other occupational lung diseas
Interventional Pulmonology
- Diagnostic bronchoscopy with BAL.
- Endobronchial ultrasound guided trans-bronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)
- Radial endobronchial ultrasound (R-EBUS) guided biopsy for peripheral pulmonary lesions i.e mass lesion, consolidation
- Transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) for tuberculosis, sarcoidosis
- Cryoprobe assisted transbronchial lung biopsy for interstitial lung disease (ILD).
- Rigid thoracoscopy for tracheal stenosis, tracheal tumors
- Thermal ablation in the airway-electrosurgery, argon plasma coagulation (APC)
- Tracheal stenting
- Self-expanding metal stents (SEMS), silicone stents
