Pulmonary Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine Department provides Out-Patient Consultations on all working days and In-Patient and Emergency Referrals. The Department is equipped with state of the art Bronchoscopy and Medical Thoracoscopy Suite, EBUS, Sleep and PFT Lab including DLCO and FeNO. Currently we are providing scientific and evidence-based management of respiratory infections including pneumonia, asthma, COPD, interstitial lung diseases, tuberculosis, and sleep disorders like obstructive sleep apnoea, lung cancers; and patients with liver diseases having lung related problems. Palliative treatment in the form of tracheal stent is provided for patients with neoplastic involvement of trachea on individual case merits. As a part of multi-disciplinary services, the Department is also able to manage cases of recurrent haemoptysis by bronchial artery embolization with the help of Interventional Radiology.
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Services Rendered by the department: From January'25 to November'25
| Name of Test | 2024 | 2025 (till 25 Dec 25) |
|---|---|---|
| OPD & IPD | 8054 | 7749 |
| PFT SIMPLE | 1368 | 1076 |
| PFT WITH BRONCHODILATOR | 661 | 415 |
| PFT WITH DIFFUSION STUDIES | 570 | 1458 |
| SLEEP STUDY | 47 | 52 |
| BRONCHOSCOPY | 130 | 115 |
| FeNO | 201 | 896 |
| 6 MINUTES WALK TEST | 457 | 657 |
| EBUS | 9 | 18 |
Educational Activities
a. Courses offered by the Department Name of the Course: DNB (Respiratory Medicine): New course PDCC Puulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine course
Department's Achievements (include Departments Research activity as well as Residents achievements
Dr. (Brig.) Debajyoti Bhattacharyya
- (a) Chairperson in sessions on Fibrosing ILD and acute exacerbation of ILD: diagnosis and management, and ACE your journey for progressive development session in APICON 2025, the 80th Annual conference of Association of Physicians of India at Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan, Kolkata from 23rd to 26th November 2025.
- (b) AIIMS PULMOCRIT 2025 on 20-23 March 2025 at AIIMS, New Delhi. Update in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Chairperson in Symposium on Airway Diseases.
- (c) Invited Faculty panelist in Role of EBUS in benign and malignant conditions, Judge for oral presentation, and Chairperson in Mastering the art session at Bronchocon 2025 27th Annual conference of Indian Association of Bronchology on 2-4 May at New Delhi.
- (d) Presented oral paper on "Diagnostic yield of bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage in hypoxic respiratory failure with ventilator associated pneumonia " in APSR 29th congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology at Manila, Philippines from 10th to 13th November 2025.
- (e) Delivered faculty lecture on "Precision Medicine in asthma: Identifying Asthma Phenotypes and Endotypes to targeted Therapies in NAPCON 2025, the 27th Joint Annual conference of National College of Chest Physicians (India) and Indian Chest Society at Patna, Bihar from 11th to 14th November 2025.
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