Overview
Our Doctors
Overview
With the best of technology and working environment to ensure the highest standards of patient care, Eastcoast Hospital offers the most talented medical professionals with medical expertise in the field of respiratory medicine and advanced pulmonary care. The hospital has specialists to provide treatment in such diseases and disorders of lungs and respiratory tract.
Diseases managed by the pulmonologist include.
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pneumoconiosis, Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax, Psittacosis
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Sarcoidosis
- Sleep apnea or restless legs syndrome
- The discipline is supported by Laboratory for investigation of blood (blood tests)such as arterial blood gas measurements
- Cardiac profile and others
- Spirometry (the determination of lung volumes in time by breathing into a dedicated machine; Response to bronchodilatators and diffusion of carbon monoxide)
- Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)
- Biopsy and epithelial brushing
- Chest (digital) X-rays,
- Spiral CT scanning and others
Facilities
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