What is Pulmonary medicine?
Pulmonary medicine is a broad speciality in medicine. This sub-specialty mainly deals with the diseases afflicting the lungs, chest, lungs, and respiratory tract. It also covers other areas like critical care, sleep medicine.
- This speciality primarily dealt with tuberculosis over the many years.
- It is still now working together with government to control tuberculosis.
- Recently, it is also dealing with areas of diagnostics procedures & interventions like bronchoscopy & thoracoscopy.
- This discipline is growing fast and showing many future possibilities.
Who is Pulmonologist?
A pulmonologist is a medical practitioner or doctor. After graduation they obtain advanced education and additional training and experiences. Using their knowledge and skill they can evaluate, diagnose, and treat the diseases of the chest, lungs and respiratory tract including:
- Alpha one antitrypsin Deficiency Emphysema
- Arthritis-related lung diseases
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Emphysema
- Lung Cancer
- Pleural Effusion
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Shortness of breath
- Sleep Apnea
What do Pulmonologists do?
- Treating the tuberculosis removing threat to the society over the years.
- Treating allergies, lung ailments affected by smoking and occupational lung diseases.
- Pulmonologists have also other specialities like sleep medicine, critical care, bronchoscopists and allergologist.