Respiratory Medicine

Respiratory Medicine covers many areas.

We look after patients with the following conditions.

• Asthma
• Bronchiectasis
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Cystic fibrosis
• Interstitial lung diseases (including Sarcoidosis)
• Lung cancer
• Pleural diseases
• Pulmonary vascular disease
• Sleep apnoea and ventilatory failure
• Tuberculosis
  

Such patients usually suffer from:

• breathlessness
• cough
• coughing up blood (haemoptysis)
• chest pain
• in the case of sleep apnoea, excessive daytime sleepiness.
  

There are supporting specialist nurses for the following conditions.

• Bronchiectasis and Cystic fibrosis
• COPD
• Interstitial lung diseases
• Lung cancer
• Pleural diseases and mesothelioma
• Sleep and ventilation disorders
• Tuberculosis

Main services

• Bronchoscopy (including interventional bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy) - please see 'Patient leaflets'
• Bronchiectasis and Cystic Fibrosis Unit
• COPD service
• General respiratory outpatients
• Inpatient beds plus two high-dependency beds
• Interstitial lung diseases service
• Lung function laboratory
• Lung cancer unit
• Pleural diseases unit
• Pulmonary rehabilitation programme
• Respiratory Clinical Trials Unit
  
• Sleep and ventilation service
  • four sleep laboratories
  • nasal CPAP service
    (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, a type of breathing apparatus)
  • non-invasive ventilation service
• Special Airway Clinic
• Thoracoscopy, image-guided pleural biopsies and indwelling pleural catheter insertion - please see 'Patient leaflets'
• Tuberculosis service
  

Find us and contact us

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine is based at the Churchill Hospital (outpatients, lung function laboratory), John Radcliffe Hospital (Respiratory Intervention Service, inpatients and some outpatients) and there is also a service at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Services are best contacted via the secretaries to the consultants according to their area of interest.