Respiratory Medicine

Respiratory medicine is a medical speciality that deals with the cause, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases affecting the airways and lungs conditions. The scope can range from simple conditions to potentially complex conditions requiring a multi-disciplinary team of medical specialists such as trained intensive care and infectious disease specialists, thoracic surgeons and radiologists. Patients with more complex respiratory conditions may need hospitalisation in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital.

Symptoms and conditions that requires assessment:

• Major Manifestation of Lung Disease
  • Cough
  • Dyspnoea
  • Chest Pain
  • Haemoptysis
  • The solitary radiographic pulmonary lesion
  • Pleural Effusion
  • Sleep-disordered breathing
  • Respiratory failure
• Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
  • Asthma
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Cystic Fibrosis
• Infections of the respiratory system
  • Upper respiratory tract infections
  • Pneumonia
  • Tuberculosis
  • Respiratory disease caused by fungi
• Tumours of the bronchus and lungs
  • Primary Tumours of the lung
  • Secondary tumours of the lung
  • Tumours of the mediastinum
• Interstitial and infiltrative pulmonary diseases
  • Interstitial pulmonary diseases
  • Lung diseases due to organic dusts
  • Lung diseases due to inorganic dusts
  • Lung diseases due to systemic inflammatory disease
• Pulmonary Vascular Disease
  • Venous Thromboembolism
  • Severe Pulmonary Hypertension
• Disease of the nasopharynx, larynx and trachea
• Disease of the pleura, diaphragm, chest wall