The two-day workshop on paediatric bronchoscopy and other pulmonary investigations organised at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh ended on Monday. The first day of the workshop focussed on bronchoscopy training and on the second day the latest updates on the treatment of tuberculosis and bronchial asthma were discussed.
Addressing the workshop, the executive director and founder of paediatric pulmonology services at AIIMS Rishikesh, Dr Meenu Singh said, “Bronchoscopy is a special procedure to directly visualize the airways and lung structures through a fibre optic camera that helps in diagnosing many conditions and in the removal of foreign bodies if inadvertently gone to windpipes. The procedure needs special expertise in children due to smaller airways.’’
She said that the training will ensure capacity building in the field of paediatric pulmonology at AIIMS Rishikesh and other institutes from where the doctors have participated.
Experts including Dr Krishan Chugh, Dr Rashmi Kapoor, Dr Pallab Chatterjee and Dr Parmarth Chandne attended the workshop.
In the workshop the trainees got an opportunity to learn the procedure of lung simulation models followed by practice on animal lungs. Trainees practiced different procedures including spirometry, lung ultrasound, testing fractional excretion of nitric oxide (FENO), and use of forced oscillation technique (FOT) which is a non-invasive method to assess airway function by emitting oscillatory signals into the respiratory tract during tidal ventilation.
