Heart, Lungs
&
Critical Care
Congress 2008
7th - 10th August, 2008
Hotel Taj Krishna, Hyderabad, India.
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Day 1
Day 1
HALL B
8th August Friday
HALL A
8th August Friday
Time
Hall A
Speakers
Duration
12.40-1.20
Lunch & Meet the Professor Sessions (6 groups)
03.25 - 03.35
TEA
12.40-1.20
lunch
3.10 - 3.30
TEA
40 mins
45 min
20 mins
8.30 - 9.00
Registration & Tea
9.00 - 10.00
Tuberculosis
Symposium
10.40-11.10
Liver in Multi-organ
Failure - Dharmesh Kapoor
Plenary session
11.10-12.40
Surviving Sepsis Guidelines -
Chairs : RK Mani & Rajiv Paul
1.20 - 2.10
Running an ICU: Key issues
2.10 - 3.25
Haemodynamic Modulation
in ICU - Chair : Gopinath
Focus Session
3.35 - 5.45
Lung Cancer
Symposium
1.20-2.20
Inhalation Devices Symposium
2.20-3.10
Hypertension
Symposium
3.30 - 4.00
Understanding Left
P.S.Reddy
4.00-4.20
4.20-4.50
Coronary Artery Disease
4.50-5.30
Acute Coronary
Syndromes
60 min
Changing face of TB (India)
Chauhan LS
Diagnosis: Any new tools?
Ranjani Ramachandran
MDR to XDR
Fraser Wares
30 mins
90 mins
Resuscitation & ScvO2 R Gopinath
Glycemic control
Srinivas S
Steroids
TVS Gopal
ARDSnet Protocol
Prakash Shastry
Vasopressors
K Vinodan
Activated protein C
Kalpalatha Guntupalli
50 mins
Economics
M Veera Prasad
Setting up
Buchi Babu
Training
Manimala Rao S
75 mins
Preload
M Subrahmanyam
Pump
Krishna Reddy
Afterload
Vinodan K
130 mins
Early diagnosis
Vaidehi Kaza
Mediastinal staging
Prashant Chhejad
Chemotherapy: Recent advances
Centhil Rajappa
Radiotherapy: Recent advances
Babaiah M
Mediastinoscopy
Rajan Santosham
60 min
How to select the device
T Mohan Kumar
DPI Vs MDI
Sandeeep Salvi
Future devices
Jaideep Gogtay
50 min
Initiating Drug Therapy in HTN:
From Controversies to Clarity
Dayasagar Rao.V
How to manage Hypertension
when initial treatment fails
Padmanabhan T.N.C
30 min
LVF- Devices
C.Narasimhan
20 mins
Coronary Risk Factors-are
indians different ?
Prabhakar
30 min
40 min
Application of cardiac CT in
cardiovascular emergencies
Ravi Battina
Newer Anti-platelet and
Antithrombotic agents
Rajeev Menon
Ventricular Failure
10.00 - 10.40
Inauguration
Inauguration
40 min

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Day 2
Hall A
9th August Saturday
Day 2
Hall B
9th August Saturday
Time
Hall A
10.40 - 10.55
Tea
15mins
1.00-01.45
Lunch & Meet the Profs
6 Groups
3.25 - 3.40
Tea
Time
Hall B
10.40 - 10.55 Tea
1.00 - 1.45
6 Groups Meet the Professor
3.25 - 3.40
Tea
45 min
15 min
15 min
45 min
15 min
8.40 - 9.40
Interstitial Lung Disease
Symposium
9.40 - 10.40 Asthma/COPD
Symposium
10.55 - 11.45 COPD: Recent adv in
Understanding & Mgnt
11.45 - 01.00 Acid Base Abnormalities
Focus session
1.45 - 2.35
NIV
Symposium
2.35 - 3.25
Pneumonia
Symposium
3.40 - 4.30
Radiology of Chest: Recent Advances
9.00 - 9.50
Pleural effusion
Symposium
9.50 - 10.40 Nutrition in special
Symposium
situations
Listen to the Experts
Hot Topic
11.45-1.00
1.45 - 2.35
Vasopressin In sepsis
Pro/con debate
2.35 - 3.25
Diabetes
Symposium
60mins
When do you suspect?
Ashok Shah
Diagnosis
Vijayan VK
Treatment
Randeep Guleria
60mins
Current tests for AWO:
Are they enough
Thanasekaran V
Acute exacerbations
Sanjiv Mehta
Say yes! To NO (AW inflammation)
Raj B Singh
Peter Barnes
75 min
Basic Principles
Buchi Babu
Clinical Applications
Jindal
Case Scenarios
Kalpalatha
50 min
In respiratory failure
Suri JC
Indian guidelines-Do they differ?
Rajesh Chawla
What are the pitfalls
Salim Surani
50 min
Management of CAP
Jindal SK
Vent Assoc Pneumonia
Khilnani GC
50 min
Ultrasound in chest
Shoma Sharma
CT Chest
Bhaven Jhankaria
Conventional radiology
LT Kishore
50 min
Fluid analysis: Is it reliable?
Raj B Singh
Difficult to diagnose effusions
Narasimhan R
Role of thoracoscopy
Prasant Chhejad
50 min
Sepsis and catabolism
Ravinder Reddy B
Liver failure
Sethu Babu
Renal failure
Rajsekhar Chakravarty
75 mins
Sarcoidosis Update
Mani Kavuru
Pulmonary Hypertension
Vaidehi Kaza
ABPA
Rajendra Prasad
50 min
Pro
Pravin Amin
Con
Babu Abraham
50 min
Implications of diabetes being
BKS Sastry
declared CAD equivalent
What should I do to prevent
Rajsekhar Chakravarty
renal disease in this diabetic pt

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MEET THE PROFESSOR
8th August Meet the Professor (over lunch)
1.15 - 2.00
9th August
Meet the Professor (over lunch) 1.00 - 1.45
Dr.Buchi Babu
Metabolic Alkalosis
Dr. Prashant Chhajed
TBLB: How I do it
Dr Somaraju.B
CAD-revascularisation
Dr. Kalpalatha G
ARDS- what is new ?
Dr. Mani Kavuru
Tests for Airway Obstruction
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Treatment Failure of TB: What do we do?
Dr.Buchi Babu (USA)
When do I put the central line?
Dr. Rajashekar/Narasimhan
Atrial fibrillation: Management
Dr. Vijay Deshpande
Weaning: Secrets
Dr. Peter Barnes (UK)
COPD: How can we treat economically
Dr. Amrith Saxena
Syncope - Approach & Management
Dr. Salim Surani
Sleep apnea - Practical Issues
Dr. Mani Kavuru
ILD: How I Approach
Group.A
Group.B
Group.C
Group.D
Group.E
Group.F
Group.G
Group.H
Group.I
Group.J
Group.K
Group.L
Group.M
Day 3
Hall A
10th August Sunday
Time
11.30-11.45
Tea
2.00pm
Lunch
15 min
9.00 - 9.40
Critical Care -Literature Review
9.40 - 10.30 Asthma: Important Advances in
Management -Plenary session
10.30 - 11.30 Pulmonary Thrombo Embolism- Focus session
11.45 12.15
Severe Pneumonia
12.15 - 1.00 Pulmonary Practice-Literature Review
1.00 - 1.50
HIV - Symposium
1.50-2.00
Valedictory
Pravin Amin
40 min
Peter Barnes
50 min
60 min
Diagnosis (practical algorithm)
D Behra
Prophylaxis and treatment
Buchi Babu
Zarir Udwadia
30 min
RK Mani
45 min
50 min
Pulmonary manifestations
Satish
Issues in critical care
Manjunath Dinaker
Treatment-Recent Trends
Sanjay Pujari
10 min
WORKSHOPS
Title
Hospital
Sponsor
Liason
7th August 2008 (Thursday)
9am to 1 pm with Lunch
50 delegates
Mechanical Ventilation
Sleep Medicine
2 D Echo
Bronchoscopy
Lung Function tests
ACLS
Percutaneous Tracheostomy
CCM Nursing
Critical Care Nutrtion
Clinical Teaching newer methods
Clinical Research
Yashoda sec
GE
Dr.Ashfaq / Krishnaprasad /
Gopal TVS
Vasavi Hospital
Respironics
Dr.J.C.Suri
Care Banjara
Dr.Krishna Reddy
AP Chest Hospital Vishal Surgicals Dr SV Prasad
KIMS
Viasys
Dr.Nalini
EMRI
EMRI
Dr.Sashikanth / Dr Pradeep
Wockhardt
Portex
Dr Shyam Sunder & Ravi Raya
Global
Global Hospital
Dr Prakash Sastry / Dr Mohan
Care Nampalli
Fresenius
Dr Ravinder Reddy & S Srinivas
MCRIHR
MEdRC & Intel
Dr.Hariprasad Chegu
NIMS
NIMS
Dr.Raghunadha rao

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ProfessorPeterJBarnes,
DM,DSc,FRCP,Medics,FRS
HeadofRespiratoryMedicine,ImperialCollege
London,UK
Kalpalatha Guntupalli
BuchiBabuPaidipaty
VijayDeshpande,
VaidehiKaza
SalimSurani
Zahra
ManiKavuru,
P.S.ReddyMD
Dr.RaghuSundaram
PresidentElectACCP
ChiefPulmonary CriticalCare&Sleepsection
BaylorCollegeofMedicine,Houston,TexasUSA
PresidentDesignateACCP2009-2010
ClinicalProfessorinMedicine
Director,CriticalCareandRespiratorytherapy
SaintMary'sofMichiganMedicalCenter
Saginaw,USA
M.S.,RRT,FAARC
AssistantProfessor(Emeritus)
GeorgiaStateUniversity, Atlanta,Georgia
SeniorHouseStaff
Pulmonary&CriticalCareHenryFordHospital
Detroit,MichiganUSA
PulmonaryCriticalCare&SleepExpert
BaylorCollege& HospitalHostonTexasUSA
RespiratoryTherapist
HoustonTexasUSA
MD
Professor&Chief
PulmonaryandCriticalCareMedicineDivision
BroodySchoolofMedicineat
EastCarolinaUniversity
GreenvilleNC,USA
ProfessorofMedicine
UniversityofPittsburgh,USA
Pulmonary&CriticalCare
USA
International Faculty
National Faculty
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Ashok Shah
( Professor of Resp Medicine V.P Chest
Institute,New Delhi)
( Chief of Pulmonary Medicine CMC,Vellore)
(Dy Director General
TB Govt of india)
(Professor of Medicine Vivekananda Institute of
Medical sciences.Kolkata)
(Consultant,WHO)
(Chief of Radiology,
Jhankaria Radiology Centre, New Delhi)
(Prof 7 HOD dept of Pulmonary and Critical Care
PGI, Chandigarh)
(Professor Dept of Medicine, AIIMS,New Delhi)
(Director Pulmonary &MICU, Fortis Hospital, Delhi)
(Sr Respiratory Physician, Apollo
Hospital,Chennai)
(Physician & Intensivist, Bombay Hospital,Mumbai)
(Mumbai)
( Pulmonologist Apollo Hospital,Chennai)
(Chairman & Senior CT Surgeon, Santosham
Chest Hospital, Chennai)
(Prof & HOD dept of Pulm Medicine,King George's
Medical University,Lucknow)
(Pulmonologist & Intensivist
Apollo Indraprastha, Delhi)
(Professor dept of Medicine,AIIMS,New Delhi)
Christopher D.J
Chauhan L S
Dhiman Ganguly
Fraser Wares
Jhankaria Bhaven
Jindal S.K
Khilnani G.C
Mani R.K.
Narasimhan R.
Pravin Amin
Prashant Chhajed
Raj B Singh
Rajan Santosham
Rajendra Prasad
Rajesh Chawla
Randeep Guleria
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(Director, CIFR,Pune)
(Consultant Pulmonologist Lilavati Hospital,
Mumbai)
(Goa)
( Prof & HOD dept of Resp Medicine Safdarjung
Hospital,New Delhi)
(Director, VP Chest Institute,
New Delhi)
(Chief of Pulm
Medicine SRMC, Chennai)
(Cochin)
( Consultant Physician, Hinduja Hospital,Mumbai)
Chief of radiation oncology, Yashoda Hospital.
Medical Oncologist NIMS
Consultant Cardiologist KIMS.
HOD Medicine, Mediciti Hospital.
Radiologist CARE Hospitals
Cardiologist CARE Hospitals.
CEO & Cardiologist CARE Hospitals
Intensivist & HOD Critical Care Yashoda
Hospital,Somajiguda.
Intensivist Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad
(Professor & Head Dept
of Medical Oncology, NIMS, Hyderabad)
Lead Partner EMLC, EMRI
Cardiologist Yashoda Hospital
Cardiologist CARE Hospital
Chairman CARE Hospitals.
Radiologist Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad
Ravindra Mehta
Sandeep Salvi
Sanjeev Mehta
Shaila Shodan Kamat
Suri J.C
Vijayan VK
Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaran
Vinodan
Zarir Udwadia
Babaiah. M
Bhushan Raju
Centhil Rajappa
Chakravarthy
Dayasagar Rao
Dinakar Manjunath
Gopal TVS
Gopinath R
Hygreev
Kishore LT
Krishna Prasad M
Krishnam Raju
Krishna Reddy N.
Manimala Rao S
Meena Wudali
Murthy JMK
Padmanabhan
Pradeep .B
Prasad S.V
Rajasekhar
Rajasekhar Chakravarthi
Rajiv Paul
Raghunadharao D
RamanaRao.G.V
Ravinder Reddy B
Ravichandra Raya
Sashikanth
Sastry B.K.S.
Somaraju B.
Shoma Sharma
Srinivas Samavedam
Subramanyam.M
Hyderabad

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