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Respiratory medicine

Our services are provided on an inpatient and outpatient basis. The Trust has a dedicated 33 bedded respiratory ward (Oxborough) and access to acute non-invasive ventilation (NIV). Bronchoscopies are carried out on site in the endoscopy unit and the team has access to ultrasound for pleural procedures. Pleural investigations are carried out in one-stop pleural clinics as well as general chest clinics.

Outpatient clinics

Outpatient clinics are held for the following:

  • Lung cancer
  • COPD
  • Asthma and other small airways conditions
  • Pneumonia
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Pulmonary fibrosis and other interstitial lung diseases, e.g. sarcoidosis, asbestosis, lung disease and allergic alveolitis
  • Pleural diseases
  • Tuberculosis
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Hyperventilation syndrome
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Pneumothorax
  • Chronic cough
  • Breathlessness
  • Non cardiac chest pain of unclear cause
  • Conditions causing an abnormal chest x-ray rather than cancer
  • Respiratory failure
  • Screening for sleep apnoea
  • Oxygen assessment via the Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust employed Oxygen Specialist Nurse

Procedures that can be performed at the time of an outpatient appointment include:

  • Portable spirometry if indicated
  • Pulse oxymetry
  • Pulse
  • Blood pressure
  • BMI

Contact details for respiratory medicine

Our consultants contact details can be found on our Consultants directory page.

Useful web links

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