METRO CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY DISEASE
Metro Center For Respiratory Diseases is one of the most advance, fully equipped respiratory department, which includes Critical Care and Sleep medicine. The Department has five consultants in all, and has a unique Respiratory Intensive Care Unit , one of its kind in this country, comprising of 20 ICU beds, Bronchoscopy unit, two pulmonary functional laboratories, Sleep labs that are housed on the same floor.
Respiratory Intensive Care Unit
The Bronchoscopy Unit
Latest technique in bronchoscopy- EBUS that is Endobronchial Biopsy ultra sound guided. It has both adult and paediatric bronchoscope, video Bronchoscope and Pleuroscope with C-Arm facilities for transbronchial lung biopies whenever needed. BasicMonitoring and resuscitation facilities are available in Bronchoscopy suite itself. Bronchoscopy procedure are routinely done in various intensive care units as and when need arises.
The Pulmonary Function Laboratory
Equipped with advanced Cosmed Quark 4 with facilities to do spirometry, FENO , lung volumes diffusion and advanced Cardio pulmonary exercise System.
Sleep Disorder Lab
Metro Sleep laboratory was first sleep disorder lab in U.P. It is one of the largest and most sophisticated sleep labs in the country being equipped with additional sensors, hardware and software to carry out cardiovascular studies.
Polysomnography or sleep studies have become a science by itself in the modern day medical world. Our lab is equipped to diagnose cases of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, Chronic Insomnia and sleep behaviour disorders and importance. Obstructive Sleep Apnoea is a diseases commonly found among the general male population. This assumes greater importance when it occurs in patients with Cardiovascular diseases, the only way to diagnose and start appropriate treatment in sleep Apnoea is to do sleep studies and prevent any serious complications and even prevent unexplained death during sleep.
Our center also provides domicillary sleep studies with its portable Auto Clinical III Lab,when a sleep study can be done in the comforts of patient's home and on his bed.
Allergy Lab
It does prick tests for various allergies to identify allergic disorders.
Pulmonary rehabilitation Center
A dedicated team of pulmonary physiotherapists is providing rehabilitation services for quick recovery and support to lead a normal life.
Thoracic surgery Unit
This department is running under the supervision of Senior thoracic surgeons along with team of respiratory physicians and a critical care team. It has fully equipped modern Operation theaters and equipments to perform thoracic surgeries.
Thoracic disease like Tuberculosis, Lung Abscess, Cancer, Empyema, Pneumothorax has been treated successfully in the units.
The unit has performed variety of successful surgeries like Thoracotomy, Lobectomy, Pneumonectomy, Thoracoplasty, Decortication, VATS and many others to treat thoracic disease like haemoptysis, Lung Abscess, Cancer, Empyema, Pneumothorax etc. with good surgical results.