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The Centre for Pulmonary Medicine undertakes the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of pulmonary diseases in children, adolescents, and adults. Comprehensive pulmonary medicine programmes include specialised treatment of specific diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, sleep-disordered breathing, interstitial lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, occupational lung diseases, pulmonary rehabilitation, tuberculosis, lung cancers and a dedicated smoking cessation programme. Diagnostic facilities include pulmonary function testing, exercise testing, allergy testing, diffusion studies, flexible video bronchoscopic investigation, BAL and endobronchial stenting, spiral & higher resolution CT imaging guided biopsies, ventilation perfusion scans for pulmonary embolism and thoracoscopic procedures.    Pulmonary Medicine Disorder Treated Procedures & Equipment Speciality Clinics Doctors Q & A Asthma Care programme Asthma and COPD Clinics with an Amrita Asthma Education Programme conducted fortnightly COPD Rehabilitation Clinic Smoking Cessation Clinic including counselling and pharmacotherapy intervention services. Fibre Optic Video Bronchoscopy Study Training for neurological and rehabilitation doctors The department renders facilities for investigation and management of all sorts of infective and non-infective pulmonary diseases. It has all the facilities for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of diffuse interstitial lung diseases, a major challenge for pulmonary physicians. Courses   CME Jobs