Jabatan Perubatan Respiratori
Hospital Queen Elizabeth
Kota Kinabalu
Sabah, Malaysia

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INTERVENTIONAL PULMONOLOGY COURSE October, 2011

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DEPARTMENTAL INFORMATION:

Jabatan Perubatan Respiratori (The Department of Respiratory Medicine) provides the full range of respiratory services for inpatient and outpatient care. It is located at Complex C on the hill side of the hospital. As part of our policy, patients with suspected lung cancers will be seen as a matter of urgency and given high priority. General medicine is also practised within the department.

It is one of the training centres for Master in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in respiratory medicine in Malaysia. We can consider accepting overseas respiratory physicians who wish to do short or long-term clinical attachments with us. Overseas Post-graduate doctors who are interested to complete their final year Fellowship at our department are also welcome to apply.

The department comprises 34 beds and incorporates a bronchoscopy/pleuroscopy suite and a High Dependency Unit for the management of patients with respiratory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation (e.g. Bi-PAP and CPAP).

We have the highest workload for interventional pulmonology in Malaysia. We also perform a high number of procedures in the pulmonary physiology and sleep medicine units making us one of the busiest subspecialities in internal medicine. Currently, we are the few internal medicine specialists in Malaysia who perform procedures under general anaesthesia regularly.

Interventional pulmonology procedures undertaken within the Department include:

  • rigid bronchoscopy - First respiratory centre in Malaysia with this expertise
  • YAP laser - First respiratory centre in Malaysia using YAP laser. It is used to treat early lung cancer, assist tumour debulking and treat haemoptysis
  • argon plasma coagulation (APC) - for treatment of haemoptysis and early lung cancer
  • cryotherapy - for treatment of early lung cancer, recanalisation of central airway tumours and taking large endobronchial biopsy
  • transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) - for sampling mediastinal or hilar lymph node/masses
  • airway stent insertion - for malignant airway stenosis (mechanical palliation)
  • Topical Mitomycin C - adjunct treatment of benign airway stenosis in combination with rigid bronchoscope and laser
  • bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) - for treatment of emphysaema (performed in clinical trial settings only)
  • pleuroscopy (including rigid thoracoscopy) - for cases of pleural effusion
  • Talc poudrage - for management of malignant pleural effusion and pneumothorax
  • Autofluorescence bronchoscopy - for detection of early lung cancer
  • Endobronchial valve (EBV) - for persistent air leak

We are also involved in pulmonary rehabilitation, respiratory research, clinical trials and anti-smoking services.

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