Respiratory
Our Respiratory medicine services include diagnosing and treating the following conditions:
Conditions
- Asbestos-related lung disease (including asbestosis and mesothelioma)
- Asthma and allergy
- Unexplained breathlessness
- Bronchiectasis
- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – including emphysema and chronic bronchitis)
- Cough
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung cancer
- Pleural diseases (including pneumothorax and pleural effusion)
- Respiratory infections (including pneumonia, tuberculosis and fungal lung disease)
- Sleep disordered breathing (including obstructive sleep apnoea)
We also offer the following diagnostic procedures:
- Bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound
- Lung function testing including spirometry, full lung function and exercise testing
- Local anaesthetic thoracoscopy and indwelling pleural catheters
- Investigations for sleep disordered breathing
Patient Information Leaflets
- Oxygen at home following discharge
- Nebulisers – what you need to know
- Administering nebulised Colomycin in adults with non cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
- How to administer nebulised Tobramycin in adults with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
- How to administer nebulised Gentamicin in adults with non cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
- How to use an Accuhaler
- How to use an Autohaler
- How to use an Easibreathe inhaler
- How to use an Easyhaler
- How to use a HandiHaler
- How to use a metered dose inhaler
- How to use a small volume spacer
- How to use a Turbohaler with dose counter
- How to use a Turbohaler with dose indicator
- How to use a large volume spacer - single breath technique
- How to use a large volume spacer device - multiple breath technique
- How to use the Ellipta inhaler
- How to use the Ellipta inhaler - large print version
- How to use the Genuair inhaler
- How to use your Zonda inhaler
- How to use a Nexthaler
- How to use the Respimat device
- Bronchoscopy
- Lung biopsy
- Thoracoscopy
- Indwelling pleural catheter
- Spirometry
- Occupational asthma assessment (OASYS)
- Spirometry with reversibility to inhalers
- Spirometry during exercise
- Mannitol bronchial challenge test
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test
- Lung function tests
- Lung function tests with reversibility to inhalers
- Shuttle walk test
- Six minute walk test
- Osler test
- Sleep studies on Fernwood Community Unit
- Sleep studies on ward 25
- Pulmonary nodules
- Actigraphy home study
- Backflash overnight home sleep study
- Non-invasive ventilation at home
- Overnight oximetry study
- Treating obstructive sleep apnoea with a CPAP machine
- Paediatric overnight home oximetry sleep study
- Respiratory muscle tests
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
