UNIT II: LUNGS AND PLEURA


B. Non-Neoplastic Lung Disease



Clinical Skills:

During the training program the resident:

  1. Diagnoses and treats patients with bacterial, fungal, tuberculous, and viral lung infections;

  2. Performs operative and non-operative management of lung abscess;

  3. Performs resections of lung and bronchi in patients with non-neoplastic lung disease;

  4. Manages patients with chronic obstructive lung disease, bronchospastic airway disease, foreign bodies of the airways, and hemoptysis;

  5. Performs thoracentesis, mediastinoscopy, mediastinotomy, flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, and open lung biopsy;

  6. Performs bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial lung biopsy.

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