Interesting Facts

Interesting facts •

You take about 20 breaths per minute, each minute you breathe in around 13 pints of air.

• When you breathe you pull in the air by flexing your diaphragm, and when you exhale it relaxes to push the air back out. • Cold weather itself doesn't have anything to do with cold season. You don't get sick with a cold because you're out in freezing air, but because you tend to be inside more and around others. When they breathe, cough and sneeze their germs go flying into the air, and if you're sharing a room with them you're likely to breathe them in and get ill. Dr. Ong Chung Years of practice: 23 Specialist Medical Consultation on all Respiratory Disorders

Branches of study Bronchoscopy Bronchoscopy and lung biopsy under fluoroscopy Bronchoscopy with transbronchial needle lymph node aspirate/biopsy Bronchoscopy with airway interventions - dilation of stenosis, stenting for lung cancer Bronchoscopic (endoscopic) lung volume reduction