Sleep studies are performed 6 nights per week (Sunday to Friday).Sleep Medicine Outpatient consulting sessions are held Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.The Department operates from 08:00 - 17:00 Monday to Friday. West FRCP (born 1928) is a noted respiratory physiologist who made major.The Respiratory Sleep Disorders Clinic is a major centre for the investigation and management of sleep-related disorders including snoring, sleep apnoea, sleep hypoventilation, chronic or recurrent respiratory failure, narcolepsy and related conditions. bronchial provocation testing (methacholine, mannitol, hypertonic saline, isocapnoeic hyperventilation, other) BackgroundStress echocardiography is an emerging tool used to detect exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension (EIPH).arterial blood gases (including their collection).

general respiratory function (GRF) assessment (lung volumes, maximum expiratory flow, gas distribution, gas transfer).The Department of Pulmonary Physiology provides a comprehensive respiratory function assessment service to identify disease, define its cause and assess severity and its change with time or treatment.

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