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

Cystic fibrosis (adults)

Lung cancer diagnosis

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

PFT