KIMSHEALTH, Kottayam top pulmonary medicine experts manage pulmonary diseases using cutting-edge methods like minimally invasive procedures. They provide care to thousands of adults and kids each year facing tough conditions such as asthma, lung cancer and chronic obstructive disease. Experts in pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine offer solutions to breathing and lung-related problems.

Personalised care built around you

Our pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine specialists collaborate with other doctors and medical staff to deliver the care you require. Their aim is to provide thorough, effective treatment tailored to your needs.

Our pulmonary team works with experts in various fields like thoracic surgery, critical care, sleep medicine, paediatric sleep medicine, lung cancer, radiology, radiation oncology, pathology, ENT, rheumatology, allergy and immunology, neurology, and lung transplant. This teamwork tradition ensures your care team creates a treatment plan tailored to your needs and fully considers every part of your condition.

At KIMSHEALTH, Kottayam our doctors are redefining pulmonary and critical care through global research and collaboration. We believe in pushing boundaries to bring you the most advanced care possible.

Why are we the best in the region?

• Cutting-edge Interventional Pulmonology Unit
• State-of-the-art labs to perform Pulmonary Function testing
• Advanced CPET facilities
• Two sleep labs on separate floors.
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit.
• A team of pulmonologists offers patient care while engaging in academics, research, and clinical practice.
• Respiratory therapists support ICU care and rehabilitation and educate patients.

The Department of Respiratory Medicine at KIMSHEALTH, Kottayam helps patients manage both common and rare respiratory issues. Their pulmonologists have expertise in conditions like:

• Diagnosing and treating lung cancer
• Managing chronic obstructive lung diseases such as asthma
• Treating interstitial lung problems
• Addressing pulmonary vascular diseases, including hypertension in the lungs
• Evaluating sleep-related disorders
• Handling acute and chronic respiratory failure
• Treating a variety of lung infections

Available Procedures and Treatments

Services provided by the department include:

• Conducting routine bronchoscopy
• Thoracic lymph node sampling using Linear EBUS-TBNA
• Using Radial EBUS guided by fluoroscopy
• Performing Flexi-Rigid Pleuroscopy
• Applying Talc Pleurodesis
• Utilising Argon-Plasma Coagulation techniques
• Performing Electrocautery procedures
• Administering Cryotherapy treatments
• Managing endobronchial debulking and applying stents
• Performing intercostal drainage
• Using point-of-care ultrasound to guide respiratory and hemodynamic procedures
• Removing foreign bodies from airways
• Carrying out both diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopies
• Performing Rigid Bronchoscopy
• Conducting ILD-bronchoscopies paired with Cryolung biopsies
• Mediastinal cryobiopsy procedures
• Managing pleural effusions using techniques like digital, ICD, and IPC
• Handling massive hemoptysis through treatments like bronchial artery embolisation
• Treatment plans and care for sleep apnoea and other sleep-related disorders
• Conducting Level 3 sleep studies with Apnoea Link
• Adjusting CPAP and VPAP therapy through titration
• Performing Level 1 polysomnography and Multiple Sleep Latency Tests (MSLT) in a sleep lab
• Measuring lung volume using body plethysmography
• Testing exhaled nitric oxide levels with FeNO assessments
• Administering bronchial challenge tests like methacholine testing
• Measuring gas transfer efficiency with DLCO (Diffusion Capacity) tests
• Carrying out pulmonary function testing (PFT)
• Evaluating respiratory mechanics using impulse oscillometry or FOT
• 6-Minute Walk Test (6MWT)
• Managing Severe and Complex Asthma Cases
• Addressing Drug and Allergy Hypersensitivity
• Conducting Drug Allergy Testing
• Pulmonary Rehab (includes Telerehab)
• Support to Quit Smoking
• Covid Recovery Care and Post-Covid Support

Available Facilities and Tools

The department provides modern facilities, including:

• Body Box, DLCO, PFT, and FOT
• CPET Testing
• Rigid and Flexible Bronchoscopy
• APC and Electrocautery
• Cryobiopsy Procedures
• Linear and Radial EBUS
• Sleep Labs and Sleep Studies
• FENO
• Pleuroscopy