Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Overview

We help patients with airway and lung disorders, including asthma, lung tumor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pleural diseases, pulmonary infections, occupational lung disease, sleep- breathing disorders and chronic cough.

Our Respiratory Function Laboratory in Clinic 4A has fully computerized facilities to evaluate pulmonary functions, cardiopulmonary exercise physiology testing and overnight sleep study tests.

List of Services

Asthma Clinic
Provides care and education on diseases, medication and self management of asthma.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinic
Evaluation for lung function testing, long-term oxygen therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation.

Lung Tumour Clinic
A one-stop evaluation for patients with or suspected to have lung cancer.

Combined Sleep/Snoring Clinic
Evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders.

Occupational Lung Clinic
Evaluation of asthma and other suspected lung disorders related to work environment.

Bronchiectasis Clinic
Evaluation, treatment and care for patients with bronchiectasis.

Interventional pulmonology

Diagnostic bronchoscopy
- Bronchoalveolar lavage
- Transbronchial lung biopsy under fluoroscopy
- Endobronchial ultrasound-guided biopsy (Linear and Radial)
- Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy
Interventional/therapeutic bronchoscopy
Laser therapy
Electrocautery
Airway stenting
Removal of foreign bodies
Dilatation of stenosis/strictures
Medical thoracoscopy
Indwelling pleural catheters

National Tuberculosis Care Centre (NTBCC)
The National Tuberculosis Care Centre (NTBCC) functions as the national referral centre for TB evaluation and treatment, for the tracing of patients who are lost to follow-up, and for the management of complicated or drug-resistant TB patients. It manages 80% of the country's TB cases, the vast majority of which are treated under Directly Observed Therapy (DOT). Another major function of the NTBCC is the screening of close contacts in households, workplaces and congregate settings (such as schools and prisons) for active and latent TB, and provision of preventive therapy for contacts found to have latent TB infection.

Other services