Clinical Departments Department of Respiratory Medicine

Dr. Lalit Singh

Professor & HOD

Dr. Lalit Singh

Professor & HOD

Department of respiratory medicine has been established since the onset of our institution and is dedicated to providing comprehensive care for patient with a wide range of respiratory diseases. Presently the department comprises a team of 16 doctors (03 Consultants, 02 Senior residents and 11 Post graduate residents) and support staff.

The department has 05 MCI recognized MD Respiratory Medicine seats. Utilizing advance technology, our department offers services including pulmonary function testing like spirometry, diffusion study, FeNO (Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide), Impulse Oscillometry, CPET (Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing), fibrooptic bronchoscopy (bronchoscopic guided biopsy, broncho-alveolar lavage, bronchial brush, Thoracoscopy, Polysomnography (Sleep Study), ABG (Arterial Blood Gas analysis) and EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound) and ensuring accurate diagnosis and effective treatment plans tailored to each patient's needs. Cryotherapy, an evolving therapeutic and diagnostic tools used during bronchoscopy is the new addition armamentarium of our department.

The department also has expertise in using USG in Respiratory medicine, ICU Care including, Non Invasive and Invasive mechanical ventilation and various invasive procedures for the critically ill patients. In addition to patient care, the Respiratory Medicine Department is actively engaged in cutting-edge research aimed at improving the understanding and treatment of respiratory diseases.

Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine conferences have been organised every alternate year. Since 2012 department has organized 11 conferences, >20 CME's and >10 online webcasts. The department also conducted successful conferences like 2nd World Conference Comprehensive Critical Care (W4C), 10th UP-UK ISCCM State Chapter and SRMS Pulmocrit-2 in the past year. In the department various thesis & research projects are being carried out every year with publications in National and International journals for continuous knowledge upgradation.

Residents of Respiratory Medicine department have achieved good ranks in NEET super speciality in their first attempt. Asthma and Allergy clinic, COPD clinic, smoking cessation & Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinic are operable since start and the department is planning to initiate MDR/XDR-TB Clinic. The department is also running DOTS Centre since April, 2006 with great success. Through our comprehensive approach, we strive to improve patient outcome & enhance quality of life for those affected by respiratory illness.

Diffusion Study, Medical Thoracoscpy and Polysomnography (Sleep Study) are new addition to armamentarium of our department.

Last year we’ve seen more than 40 thousand patients in our OPD, around 2600 patients were admitted; about 2300 spirometry, 200 pleural tapping, 135 ICD procedures and more than 270 fibre-optic bronchoscopy procedures have been performed. During last 5 years we have diagnosed about 500 cases of Carcinoma lung/ pleura and provided treatment in collaboration with Deptt of Radiotherapy.

The department is also running various specialized clinics like Asthma and Allergy clinic, COPD and Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinic, and planning to initiate MDR/XDR- TB Clinic. The department is also running DOTS Centre since April, 2006 with great success. More than 10 thousand patients have been diagnosed by sputum microscopy and 800 cases have been registered with us, got medicine and cured.

The department has been pioneer in organizing first of their kinds of national level conferences. In year 2008 we organised highly successful and much appreciated 1st pulmonary and critical care update, and in year 2010 we organized 1st ever UP- Uttarakhand State Chapter Conference of Indian Society of critical care medicine (ISCCM) at Nainital. In the year 2013, we organized 1st update on critical care at Jim Corbett.

Last year our department organized highly successful Comprehensive Critical Care Conference (C4). In this winter we organized much appreciated 2nd Update on Critical Care at Jim Corbett.

Our faculty members have provided support to other departments in organizing various conferences and workshops. The faculty of the department have contributed various academic articles to journals conference books, and collage magazine. Our faculty have delivered lectures in national conferences and attended various national and international pulmonary/ critical care conferences as speakers, faculty or delegates. Our PG students have presented many papers and posters at various national and state level conferences.

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Department of Pulmonary Medicine Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) Facility Started First Time In The Region

SRMSIMS, Bareilly proudly announces introduction of EBUS (ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND) in department of pulmonary and critical care. EBUS is a novel, highly effective OPD procedure to evaluate and collect samples from patients of suspected lung cancer for diagnosis and staging, lungs nodules, detect lungs infection and to evaluate areas of lung not accessible through fibreoptic bronchoscope.

The Institute is the first to offer this facility in Rohilkhand division and Kumaun Area of Uttarakhand, that too at a much cheaper rate as compared to hospital charges in metro cities.