Respiratory Medicine
Doctors
About the Department
Department of Respiratory Medicine provides comprehensive care for patients with respiratory illness like, asthma, copd, bronchiectasis, respiratory infections including tuberculosis, allergies, pleural disease and sleep related breathing disorders. In collaboration with other departments, experts in this department provide special care for critically ill patients, requiring intensive care and invasive ventilatory support in our multi disciplinary ICU especially for ARDS, Sepsis, and acute respiratory failure. As one of the recognised Super Specialty Hospitals in Calicut, we have a state of the art fibre optic chip based video bronchoscopy unit which can provide diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Our hospital lab is recognized as a designated microscopic centre under RNTCP, and is under direct supervision of this department.
Clinical Focus
- Asthma and allergy clinic
- COPD and rehabilitation clinic
- ILD clinic
- TB Clinic
- Pneumonia clinic
- Smoking Cessation clinic
Infrastructure
- Spirometry.
- Oximetry.
- Arterial blood gas analysis.
- Well equipped ICU with facilities for Non invasive and invasive mechanical ventilatory support.
- Multipara monitors for continuous monitoring.
- Point of care portable ultrasonography for assessment of critically ill patients, guided vascular access and other therapeutic procedures.
- Digital X-ray.
- HRCT lung.
- CECT thorax.
- CT pulmonary angiogram.
- Thoracic ultrasonography.
- MRI For thoracic vascular lesion.
- Thoracentesis.
- Pleural biopsy.
- Trans thoracic needle aspiration and biopsy.
- Fibre optic video bronchoscopy.
- Bronchial washing.
- Bronchial brushing.
- Bronchial biopsy.
- Bronchoalveolar lavage.
- Tube thoracostomy for pneumothorax, empyema, hemothorax.
- Chemical pleurodesis.
- Emergency medicine department with facilities for triage, resuscitation for acutely ill patients with facility for POC ultrasound for BLUE (Bedside Lung Ultrasound in Emergency) protocol and eFAST ( extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma).
- Wards with central oxygen supply system.
- Recognized designated microscopic centre (DMC) under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program, for microbiologic diagnosis of tuberculosis and MOTT.
Publications
1.
Bode Index in COPD Patients during
Acute exacerbations and its influence on Treatment outcome –
An observational Study Published in Vol-07Issue-04, April 2019 JMSCR
2.
Effect of Electrocardiographic
findings on mortality of Acute Exacerbation Of COPD-
An observational Study. Journal of Evolution Medical and Dental Science.
1789-1793 Jan 3 , 2019.
3. Profile of COVID-19 Patients with
Persistent Respiratory Symptoms PV
Harsha1Durga Balagopalan2 MM Aneesh3Ponneduthamkuzhy Thomas James4Ajit
Bhaskar5S Krishnaveni6 Received on: 03 June 2022; Accepted on: 12 November
2022; Published on: 14 March 2023.
4.
An Observational Study on the Utility of Lab Parameters in
Evaluating the Severity of Patients in South India with Covid-19. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2023 Jul;15(Suppl 1):S414-S418. doi:
10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_549_22. Epub 2023 Jul 5. PMID: 37654375; PMCID: PMC10466675.
Binub K, Harsha PV, Salim RS, Sunny S, Dabas P, Chalil S, Henry S.
5.
Factors
influencing the hospital length of stay in Covid-19 patients in Calicut, Kerala
- A cross-sectional study
GJMEDPH2023; Vol. 12, issue 1Pratibha Dabas1, Harsha P.V.2, Sneha
Henry3, Manisha Wadhwa4, Kanniyan Binub5 2023
6.
Relationship
between COVID-19 Vaccination Status and Comorbidities of COVID-19 Patients
Admitted at a Tertiary Medical College in Calicut District, Kerala Dabas, Pratibha; Harsha, P. V.1; Henry, Sneha2; Binub,
Kanniyan 2023
7.
Mortality,
morbidity and its associations in the second peak of second wave of covid-19:A
tertiary care hospital study from Kerala, a southern state in India. Dr.Harsha P V1 Dr. Sneha Henry2 Dr. Pratibha Dabas3Dr. Kanniyan Binub4 2024
8.
Clinical profile
and incidence of toxic optic neuropathy (TON) in patients receiving anti
tuberculous therapy: A prospective study Dr. Durga Balagopalan, Dr. Lakshmi Cherungottil, Dr. Nishitha P, Dr. Harsha
PV, Dr. Raju KV, Dr. PT James and Dr. Remya Ramachandran DOI: https://doi.org/January 2024 International Journal
of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 6(1):61-65DOI:10.33545/26647591.2024.v6.i1a.81 EMBASE.
RECENT STUDIES COMPLETED
1. A
comparative study of COPD among smokers and Non smokers – Dr.Durga Balagopalan
Dr. P.T .James
2. A Comparative study of CBNAAT, AFB smear, Cytology/ Histology with AFB culture/ INH LPA in suspected Extrapulmonary TB cases Dr.Harsha
Other Activities
Academic activities
Department holds regular theory and clinical classes for the undergraduates as per KUHS guidelines. House surgeons also participate in departmental activities including academics and patient care. Weekly seminar presentation by house surgeons.
FACILITIES AVAILABLE IN THE DEPARMENT
- 1. ABG:
- 2. Pulmonary Functions Test
- 3. Spirometry
- 4. Flexible Bronchosopy
- 5. Designated Microscopy Centre and DOT centre for Tuberculosis
