Pre-conference workshop: Experts discuss pain management

Tribune News Service

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Ludhiana, November 25

Raj Bahadur, Vice-Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, inaugurated the pre-conference workshops here today. They are to be followed by the 64th Annual National Conference of Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISACON 2016) from November 25 to 29.

Bahadur hailed the organising committee for conducting the event. He said experts from across the world were participating in the event to share their experiences in the field of anaesthesia, critical care and pain.

Fifteen workshops on pain management, airway management, perioperative, simulation, worNeurocritical care, CPR, comprehensive trauma life support, extra corporeal therapies in ICU, research methodology and publication, haemodynamic monitoring, labor analgesia, regional anaesthesia, current concept in mechanical ventilation, ultrasound in anaesthsia, and temperature regulation were organised.

Faculty from abroad and India, including Dr Gillian Bishop from Australia, Dr YK Chain and Dr Marzida and Dr Raveenthiran from Malasiya, Dr Anjan Trikha and Dr Poonam Malhotra from AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr GD Puri and Dr Kajal Jain from PGIMER, Chandigarh, Dr Rakesh Kumar and Dr Sunil Kumar from MAMC, New Delhi, Dr Subendu Sarkar from Kolkata participated in the workshops.

The workshops were preceded by video presentations, demonstration, hands-on-training and lectures from faculty. Organising Secretary Sunil Katyal welcomed the participating delegates.

He said such conferences were of great importance to the students and faculty as they could help develop better care system. The workshops will be followed by a four-day continuing medical education (CME) and conference to be inaugurated on November 26 by VP Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab, at Punjab Agriculture University.

Organising secretaries said around 4,000 delegates were expected to attend the conference. Extensive arrangements have been made for the participants. The workshops had been awarded 4 credit hours by the Punjab Medical Council, they said.