The Lung Center

• This page has been designed keeping in view the specific needs of fellows in pulmonary and Critical care medicine. Kindly read our disclaimer policy at the bottom of this page before viewing or accessing any of the below sections.

This page has THREE sections, namely

• Online Education: This section is further subdivided into the Clinical Examination and PCCU, there are videos and lectures in this section,

• Question bank: This section has questions put up in the theory examination by the National Board in the last few years and also that of various Universities.

• Links and presentations : This last section has commonly used medical tools and routinely used power point presentations of topics related to Pulmonary, Critical care and Sleep Medicine. It also has links to various important topics and reviews in Pulmonary Medicine.

Though we have tried to be extensive in our approach but there is still a long road ahead, like always we welcome your inputs. Your guidance will help us to better this page, which in turn would help us all.

Online Education

Clinical Examination

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1. Complete History and Examination

2. Vital Signs

3. HEENT Examination

4. Upper Extremity Examination

5. Lower Extremity Examination

6. Chest Examination

7. Cardiac Examination

8. Abdominal Examination

9. Neurological Examination

PCCSU

Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Update are a series of topics (CME) that are covered by the American College of Chest Physicians as a part of their online education.These are followed by set of post study questions.The details of the above can also be obtained from 

 http://www.chestnet.org/accp/pccu

though a number of lessons are presented in each volume, our editorial board tries to pick up those which seem most relevant. Kindly read our disclaimer policy at the bottom of the page before accessing the contents below.

2009-2010

Lesson 1

• Use of the 6 min Walk Test- a pro and Con Review

Lesson 2

• Pleurodesis for Malignant Pleural Effusion - The optimal agent and methodology

Lesson 3

• Sepsis -Definition,Epidemiology,Etiology and Pathogenesis

 Question Bank

This section has been possible because of the inputs of a lot of people either directly or indirectly involved with these examinations. Though we have tried to maintain the authenticity of the papers but still The Lung Center takes no responsibility for errors that might have crept in inadvertently.

We are always keen and ready to improve, we would appreciate your comments, remarks and inputs to make this section further more useful.Please feel free to contact us at

info@thelungcenter.co.in

• Diplomate of the National Board (Last few years)

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• MD Questions from various Universities (Last few years)

Please bear with us as this section is still under construction. Thank You for your patience. Inconvenience caused is deeply regretted.

Disclaimer: Please go through the copyright policy of the concerned journal/site regarding access to the journal or parts of it or contents of the linked sites. The Lung Center takes no responsibility for illegal reproduction or misuse of any articles/site content by users of this web site.  On some areas of this Web site, The lung Center is a distributor only, and not a publisher, of messages and other content supplied by members, visitors, and other third parties. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, or other information or content made available by members, visitors, and other third parties are those of the respective author(s). The Lung Center cannot and does not endorse it in any way, nor does it vouch for its accuracy or usefulness. The Lung Center disclaims all liability relating to such third party content.

• Online Drug Index

• Multi- Drug Interaction Checker

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• Online Medical Calculator

   

• Online Acid Base Calculator 

   

• Online Unit Conversion 

• Online Chest Radiology

• Bronchoscopy Training

• PubMed

• Google Scholar 

• ATS

• AJRCCM

• BTS

• THORAX

• ACCP

• CHEST

• SCCM

• Crit Care Medicine

• NEJM

• LANCET  

• Web MD

Presentations

Here are some presenation templates (pdf format) that have been provided to help you get an idea on how a topic can be approached. 

These presentations have been prepared by doctors from our fraternity over the past few years and  we express our gratitude to all of them. To preserve the sanctity of the presentations we have converted them into read only format.

The views,ideas and opinions expressed in the presentation are not necessarily endorsed by us at "The Lung Center".

We would consider our cause fulfilled, if our material here can help you better your presentation.

We also look forward to contributions from you.

Please send us your comments,queries and contributions at

info@thelungcenter.co.in

• How to Make Power Point Slides
• Cough
• Wheezing
• Hemoptysis
• Hemoptysis 2
• Dyspnoea
• Lung Anatomy-1
• Lung Anatomy -2
• Lung Examination
• PFT
• GOLD
• COPD -Ac exaceb
• GINA
• Br Asthma Complete
• Mgmt of Asthma
• Asthma Spl Sitn.
• CAP
• HAP
• BCG
• BCG 2
• Mantoux testing
• Childhood TB
• TB Meningitis
• Miliary TB
• Newer diagnostics modalities for TB
• Post TB sequelae
• TB and Surgery
• Cutaneous TB
• MDR TB
• EPTB- Hip
• Renal TB
• Miliary Opacities
• Pleural Fluid
• Pleural Effusion
• Pneumothorax
• BTS management of Pneumothorax 
• Chest Tubes
• Empyema Necessitans  
• Lung Expnsn Therapy
• BLVR Surgery
• PAH
• SLE
• Obesity and Lung
• Systemic Sclerosis 1
• Systemic sclerosis 2
• Sleep
• TB Lymphadenitis 1
• TB Lymphadenitis 2
• Lymphoma
• Lymph nodes
• Eosinophilic Lung Diseases
• HIV and Lung
• HIV and ART
• HIV and TB
• Pulm complications of  HIV
• Occupational Lung Diseases
• Sterilization and disinfection
• Patient education and asthma
• Developmental lung disorders
• Dyselectrolemia
• Fluid Therapy
• Sepsis-Mngmnt
• Oxygen therapy
• Interstial Pneumonia's
• Drug Induced Lung Dis
• BPF
• Lung Cancer -1
• Lung Cancer 2
• Lung Cancer TNM
• ABG
• Pre-Op Assesment
• DM- complications
• Electrolytes in ICU
• Pulmonary Rehab

Immunotherapy

• IT in Allergic diseases
• Sublingual IT