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

Name & Qualifications	Designation	Areas of Interest	Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page
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

Photo	Name & Qualifications	Designation	Areas of Interest	Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page

Services

Services Available in the department:

Outpatients department:
- 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.

- 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

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Courses & Short term Trainings

Name of the course	Duration of course	Present number of students
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

Research

Projects

Title	Co-PI	Principal Investigator	Collaboration, if any (Department and institute)	Funding Agency	Projects Status
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

Collaboration

Collaboration for	Collaboration with Department and institute	Services offered/ work undergoing in collaboration
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

Expansion plan

Expansion planned for the future:

- 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