Pulmonary Medicine
Faculty
Services
OPD Schedule
Specialty Clinics
Statistics
Courses & Short term Trainings
Research
Collaboration
Expansion plan
Pulmonary Medicine
Vision statement:
- To establish a centre of excellence in Interventional Pulmonology
- To establish a high end Sleep laboratory for research and management of Sleep disorders
- To establish a state of the art Respiratory Intensive Care Unit
- To establish a high class Pulmonary physiology and Function Tests laboratory
- To create an academically enriching environment for teaching and learning of Undergraduate, Postgraduate and PhD students
We are in process of expanding our 24×7 bronchoscopy services by procuring 11 Bedside Bronchoscopes and setting up of 04 High Flow Nasal cannula units for our Indoor patients
Mission statement:
To provide high-quality tertiary care services in fields of Interventional Pulmonology,sleep disorders,intensive care and lung function testing.
To achieve excellence in teaching and training of both Undergraduate and Postgraduate National as well as International students
Faculty
| Photo | Name & Qualifications | Designation | Areas of Interest | Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page |
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 | Dr. Girish Sindhwani MD Respiratory Medicine | Professor & Head | Clinical :- Interstitial Lung disease and interventional Pulmonology Research :- Interstitial Lung disease and interventional Pulmonology | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2765-2343 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Girish_Shindhwani |
 | Dr. Ruchi Dua MD,DNB respiratory diseases | Additional Professor | Clinical :- Endobronchial ultrasound,PFT,Thoracic radiology Research :- Obstructive airway diseases | ruchi.pulm@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3208-673X https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruchi_Dua |
 | Dr. Mayank Mishra MD Respiratory Medicine | Additional Professor | Clinical :- Interventional Pulmonology, Lung Cancer Research :- Bronchoscopy, Lung Cancer, COPD | mayank.pulm@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7982-6267 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayank_Mishra9 |
 | Dr. Prakhar Sharma MD (TB Respiratory disease) | Associate Professor | Clinical :- International Pulmonology, ILD, Critical Care Research :- ILD, Critical Care | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6710-3499 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prakhar-Sharma8 |
 | Dr. Lokesh Kumar Saini MD (Respiratory Medicine) | Associate Professor | Clinical :- International Pulmonology, Sleep Medicine Research :- Sleep Medicine | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6972-3966 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lokeshk_Saini |
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Services
Services Available in the department:
- Outpatients department:
- General OPD / Specialty clinic Schedule- day and consultant wise
- General OPD / Specialty clinic Schedule- day and consultant wise
In-patient department: Department of Pulmonary Medicine presently has a 30 bedded ward including a 4 bedded Respiratory ICU along with 04 high end mechanical Ventilators to provide medical services to the needy patients. Our ward is equipped with central as well as bedside cylinder-based oxygen supply, on floor ABG machine, Non-invasive ventilation machines and 04 high end mechanical Ventilators supported by able team of doctors and well trained sympathetic nursing staff guided by standard operative protocols. Our indoor is equipped with bedside bronchoscopy for 24×7 bronchoscopy services. A dedicated Ultrasonography machine is present in the ward 24 hours which is utilized for for assessment of pleural effusions, invasive bedside procedures like thoracentesis, pigtail insertions, transcutaneous FNA and biopsy procedures, pulmonary and cardiac evaluation in ICU patients for, IVC assessment for fluid resuscitation, guided central line placement and so forth.
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- Procedures (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic) offered by the department:
- Currently the department runs 3 labs
- Full-fledged state of art Pulmonary function lab offering spirometry, diffusion, body box plethysmography and cardio-pulmonary exercise testing.
- Interventional Pulmonology lab providing Basic and advanced bronchoscopy procedures, endobronchial USG (EBUS) and semi rigid Thoracoscopy, argon plasma therapy, electrocautery, and Rigid bronchoscopy for both therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Cryotherapy for both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures has also been started
- Thoracic Ultrasonography-diagnostic & guided procedures
- Sleep lab for diagnosis and management of sleep related breathing disorders.
- Respiratory rehabilitation therapy
- DOTS centre in OPD complex
OPD Schedule
| Consultants | Day of Week/ Time | Room No. | Other Info |
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| Consultants | Day of Week/ Time | Room No. | Other Info |
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Specialty Clinics
| Day of Week/time | Specialty Clinic | Consultant in charge | Consult, if you have following issues |
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| Day of Week/time | Specialty Clinic | Consultant in charge | Consult, if you have following issues |
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Statistics
Courses & Short term Trainings
| Name of the course | Curriculum | Duration of course | Present number of students | Objectives/ brief description of the course |
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| DM Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine | 3 years | 5 | ||
| MD Respiratory Medicine | 3 years | |||
| Diploma in TB & Chest Diseases | 2 years | |||
| BSc Respiratory therapist | 3 years | 4 | ||
| Certificate courses in Bronchoscopy technician | ||||
| Certificate courses in PFT technician |
| Name of the course | Curriculum | Duration of course | Present number of students | Objectives/ brief description of the course |
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Research Projects
| Title | Co-PI | Principal Investigator | Collaboration, if any (Department and institute) | Funding Agency | Projects Status |
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| A prospective observational comparative study:assessing functional capacity to predict 90 day and/or morbidity after major non-cardiac surgery in a cohort of hilly population of Uttarakhand | Dr. Ruchi Dua | DST,UKD | Ongoing | ||
| COPD registry (INCOR study) | Dr. Ruchi Dua | Ongoing |
Projects
| Title | Co-PI | Principal Investigator | Collaboration, if any (Department and institute) | Funding Agency | Projects Status |
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Collaboration
| Collaboration for | Collaboration with Department and institute | Services offered/ work undergoing in collaboration |
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| INCOR PROJECT | Dept of pharmacology,SRM medical college,kattankulathur,Chennai,multicentric trial involving 9 centres from India | COPD registry |
| CSR GRANT | ONGC | 10 Lakh Apporx |
| Collaboration for | Collaboration with Department and institute | Services offered/ work undergoing in collaboration |
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Expansion plan
Expansion planned for the future:
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- Clinical Services: High flow nasal canula for critically ill hypoxic patients,rigid thoracoscopy,Radial EBUS services,Bronchoprovocation tests
- Academics and teaching:Initiating MD courses & certificate courses in EBUS & bronchoscopy,Strengthening PhD program in department
- Research:Planning more projects with National & international collaboration