Respiratory medicine is the care and treatment of conditions that affect your breathing, including your lungs and airways.
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Services we provide
We see and treat people with a wide range of breathing and lung problems, including:
- Ongoing or unexplained breathlessness (not caused by heart problems)
- Chest pain not linked to the heart
- A long-lasting cough or chronic cough
- A cough that doesn't go away
- Frequent chest infections
- Abnormal chest X-rays that need further tests
- Suspected lung cancer (seen within 2 weeks of referral)
- Suspected lung scarring (fibrosis) or other interstitial lung diseases
- Breathing problems caused by work (occupational lung disease)
- Asthma that is hard to control or gets worse often
- Asthma in pregnancy
- Breathing failure (when your lungs can't get enough oxygen or remove enough carbon dioxide)
- Complex conditions that affect both the heart and lungs
- Pleural disease (affecting the lining of the lungs)
- Patients who need a bronchoscopy (a test to look inside your airways)
We also treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), when you might have:
- Unclear diagnosis
- Severe symptoms or very frequent flare-ups
- Fast decline in how well you can carry out daily tasks
- Symptoms that seem worse than expected based on lung function tests
- COPD that started early in life or in people who don’t smoke
- When long-term steroid treatment might be needed
Contact the respiratory team
Dr Thomas Pulimood, respiratory consultant: 01284 713843
Dr Ludmila Shulgina, respiratory consultant: 01284 712765
Dr Jessica White, respiratory consultant: 01284 713439
Dr Carolina Caprario, respiratory consultant: 01284 712548
Lynne Evans, lung cancer nurse specialist: 01284 713652
Kerri Welham, asthma, TB and interstitial lung disease nurse specialist: 01284 712779
Tracey Cross, lung physiologist: 01284 713509