PROTOCOLS/GUIDELINES

Respiratory Department produce protocols and guidelines for doctors working in district hospitals in Sabah. We will update these guidelines regularly to improve care of respiratory patients in Sabah.

• Pleurodesis
• Standard TB drugs (updated)
• Severity of PTB
• How to induce sputum for AFB using hypertonic saline
• TB startup sheet
• Patient education sheet on TB
• Severity assessment of spontaneous pneumothorax
• TNM descriptors of Lung Cancer
• TNM Staging for Lung Cancer
• Multidisciplinary Lung Cancer Form
• ECOG Status
• Patient education brochure on lung cancer
• Bronchoscopy Indications and Contraindications
• Patient education brochure on bronchoscopy (English version)
• Patient education brochure on bronchoscopy (Malay version)
• Bronchoscopy consent from
• Bronchoscopy consent form (Malay Version)
• Bronchoscopy Checklist
• Pulmonary Physiology Request Form
• Sleep Study Request Form
• Useful article on practical management of subcutaneous emphysaema
• Investigations you must do in a case of pleural effusion
• Review article on malignant pleural effusion
• Review article on the management of pleural space infections
• Useful article on intrapleural streptokinase
• Nicorette FAQs (Guide for your quit smoking clinic)
• Patient education brochure 1 on smoking cessation
• Patient education brochure 2 on smoking cessation
• Patient education brochure on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Pulmonary rehabilitation request form
• Patient education brochure on lung transplantation
• Pleuroscopy consent form
• Pleuroscopy consent form (Malay version)
• Frequently asked questions about tuberculosis (updated)
• Respiratory Department News Bulletin Volume 1
• Respiratory Department News Bulletin Volume 2
• Respiratory Department News Bulletin Volume 3