Swagatham!

Dear Sir / Madam.

Greetings from the Kerala Chapter of Indian Chest Society !
As you may be well aware, NAPCON 2019, the 21st Joint National Conference of the Indian Chest
Society and the National College of Chest Physicians is all set to be organised in Kochi Kerala from the
21st to 24th of November. The theme of the conference is “Today’s Research is tomorrow’s practice”.
The organising team is delighted to extend cordial invitation to one and all involved in the practice and
research of pulmonary medicine and eagerly awaits to welcome you to Kochi, at the heart of God’s own
country. With increasing atmospheric pollution and global warming, the incidence of respiratory
diseases has been steadily increasing. The incidence of COPD and lung cancer have been rising to such
an alarming extent that many national scientific forums have echoed the necessity of a respiratory
revolution for India. The national conference intends to cater to the academic needs of the astute
researcher, busy clinician and budding post graduate student alike and allows a platform for
dissemination and sharing of updated clinical knowledge. The scientific team has been immensely
focused to ensure that topics of contemporary relevance are given utmost importance and forums
allow ample exchange of thought process between faculty and delegates. The conference will witness
state of the art workshops, didactic lectures on core topics, panel discussions on key areas, pro-con
debates on controversial aspects and lot more. International and national faculty with special interest in
subspecialties will anchor the sessions and moderate discussions. To encourage adequate participation
from budding trainees, free paper sessions have been devised on multiple topics.
Kerala has traditionally been a dream destination to the exploring tourist. To add extra- academic
colours to the conference, we have an immensely ambient waterfront venue perched on 26 acres of
plush green land on the serene Bolgatty Island borderling the Vembanad lake / Arabian sea. Kerala is
well known for pristine beaches, calm backwaters, greenery covered hill stations and pious shrines. The
Kochi culinary is a judicious blend of exotic seafood, spice rich curries and mouthwatering desserts.
We have ensured that the conference will be informative and enjoyable to delegates and accompanying
persons alike. We look forward to welcome you in Kochi.

Dr C Ravindran Dr Rajesh V Dr Paramez AR

Organising Chairman Organising secretary Treasurer
Indian Chest Society Leadership National College of Chest Physicians Leadership

Dr Sudhir Chaudhri Dr Rajesh Swarnakar Dr J K Samaria Dr Surya Kant Dr S N Gaur Dr V K Singh

President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer President NCCP (I) Honorary Secretary NCCP (I) Treasurer NCCP(I)

National Scientific Team

Dr Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaraan Dr Virendra Singh

Napcon 2019 Patrons

Dr P Ravindran Dr K P Govindan Dr Joshi M

NAPCON 2019 TEAM

Dr C Ravindran Dr Sunny P Orathel Dr Rajesh V Dr Paramez AR

Organising Chairman Organising Co-chairman Organising Secretary Treasurer

Dr P T James Dr K M Ramesh Nair Dr Madhukumar K

Organising Vice Chairman Organising Vice Chairman Organising Vice Chairman

Dr Jolsana Augustine Dr Kiran Vishnunarayanan Dr Praveen Valsalan Dr Bindu CG

Joint Organising Secretary Joint Organising Secretary Joint Organising Secretary Joint Organising Secretary
 NAPCON 2019- FACULTY
International Faculty

Dr Atul Mehta Dr Adel H Mansur Dr Anand Singh Prof Annie Taegetmeyer Dr Darsana Viswam
USA UK UK Switzerland UK

Dr Frans De Jong Dr Graham Burns Dr.Ganesh Raghu Dr Jayakrishnan B Prof Jeorg D Leuppi
Netherlands UK USA UAE Switzerland

Dr Jabeed P Dr K P Ravikrishnan Prof Marc Elliot Dr Mohammed Aslam N K Dr Munavvar M

Qatar USA UK UAE UK

Dr Mohammad Azizur Rahman Dr Narendra Bhatta Dr Nisha Keshary Bhatta Dr.Peter Howarth Dr Rajesh Thomas
Bangladesh Nepal Nepal UK Australia

Dr Richard Thompson Dr Shyam Madathil Prof. Sally Sing

UK UK UK

National Faculty

Dr A A Mahasur Dr Abdul Majeed Arshad Dr A K Singh Dr Aditya Chawla Dr Aditya Jindal

Mumbai Chennai Kanpur Delhi Chandigarh

Dr AG Ghosal Dr Agam Vora Dr Ajay Handa Dr Ajay Narasimhan Dr Ajay Varma

Kolkota Mumbai Delhi Chennai Lucknow

Dr Ajeeth Singh Dr Ajith Bhaskar Dr Ajith Toms Dr AK Abdulkhader Dr AK Janmeja

Jaipur Calicut Kochi Calicut Chandigarh

Dr AK Rajputh Dr Alladi Mohan Dr Ameer KA Dr Amel Antony Dr Amir Khoja

Delhi Tirupathi Trivandrum Kochi Pune

Dr Amita Joshi Dr Amitha Nene Dr Anand Kumar Dr Anand Srivatsava Dr Angira Dasgupta
Mumbai Mumbai Delhi Lucknow Kolkota

Dr Anitha Kumari K Dr Anurag Agarwal Dr Apar Jindal Dr Aravind Perathur Dr Arjun P

Trivandrum Delhi Chennai Kochi Trivandrum

Dr Aruna shanmuganathan Dr AS Natarajan Dr Asfaq Hassan Dr Ashok Kumar Singh Dr Ashok Sha
Chennai Chennai Hyderabad Kanpur Delhi

Dr Asmita Mehta Dr Avik Ghosal Dr B K Menon Dr Babu Abraham Dr Basanth Hazarika

Kochi Kolkota Delhi Chennai Guwahati

Dr BB Mathur Dr Bharath Bushan Sharma Dr Bharath Gopal Dr Bhavin Jhankaria Dr Bindu CG

Bikanir Jaipur Delhi Mumbai Kochi

Dr BNBM Prasad Dr BO Tayade Dr Bornali Dutta Dr C Chandrasekhar Dr Col K E Rajan

Bangalore Nagpur Gurugram Chennai Trivandrum

Dr Col VP Gopinathan Dr CP Murali Dr D Behera Dr D J Christopher Dr Davis Paul

Trissur Trissur Delhi Vellore Trissur

Dr Deepak Ishwardas Muthreja Dr Deepak Kumar Sha Dr Deepak Talwar Dr Deependra Kumar Rai Dr Dharmesh Patel
Nagpur Varanasi Delhi Patna Baroda

Dr Dilip Govind Mhaisekhar Dr Dinesa Prabhu V Dr Dinesh Mehta Dr Divya R

Dr Dhiman Ganguly
Nanded Trissur Yamumanagar Kochi
Kolkota

Dr Druv Chaudhary Dr Druvjyothi Roy Dr Fathahudeen A Dr G C Khilani Dr George D'Souza

Rohtak Kolkota Kochi Delhi Bangalore

Dr George Moti Justin Dr Girija Nair Dr Gyanendra Agarwal Dr H Paramesh Dr Harilakshmanan P

Kochi Sanpada Noida Bangalore Kochi
Dr Harjith Dumra Dr Harpreeth Singh Dr HB Chandrasekhar Dr Himansu Garg Dr Indranil Haldar
Ahamedabad Rohtak Bangalore Delhi Kolkota
Dr Irfan Ismail Yusuf Dr J Balachandran Dr Jacob Baby Dr Jayachandra Dr Jayakumar R Menon
Chennai Kollam Kochi Hyderabad Trivandrum

Dr Jayaprakash B Dr Jaymohan Unnithan Dr JK Samaria Dr Jyothi E Dr Jyotsana Augustine

Trivandrum Coimbatore Varanasi Calicut Kochi

Dr K Anupama Moorthy Dr K Gowrinath Dr K Jagannath Dr K K Dang Dr K P Govindan

Chennai Hyderabad Chennai Kota Calicut

Dr K P Venugopal Dr K Sathish Dr K Venugopal Dr Kalpana Balakrishnan Dr Karan Madan

Kottayam Bangalore Chennai Chennai Delhi

Dr Kavitha Dr KB Gupta Dr Khushbu Agarwal Dr Kiran Vishnu Narayan Dr Kishku

Chennai Rohtak Jaipur Kottayam Pondicherry

Dr K K Sharma Dr Koushik Muthuraja Dr KP Suraj Dr Kripesh Sarmah Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva

Jaipur Chennai Calicut Guwahati Delhi

Dr Kumari Indira Dr Kurien Thomas Dr Lalitha Fernandez Dr Lokanathan Dr M Joshi

Kochi Trissur Goa Chennai Trivandrum

Dr Madhu Kallath Dr Madhu K Dr Madhu Kumar Dr Mahendrakumar Bainara Dr Mahesh Goyal

Calicut Trivandrum Kochi Jaipur Jaipur
Dr Mahilmaran Dr Mala Ramanathan Dr Manish Kumar Yadav Dr Manish Shankar Dr Manju Venkateswara Babu
Chennai Trivandrum Trivandrum Chennai Pondicherry

Dr Manoj DK Dr Manoj Goel Dr Mansi Gupta Dr Manu Mohan Dr Meenakshi N

Kannur Delhi Lucknow Manipal Chennai

Dr MK Daga Dr MK Sen Dr ML Bharathwal Dr ML Gupta Dr Mohan M. Modi

Delhi Delhi Mumbai Kanpur Pune

Dr Muhammed Muneef E Dr Murali Mohan B V Dr M S Jawahar Dr N Ramakrishnan Dr Nagarjun Mathuru

Perinthalmanna Bangalore Delhi Chennai Hyderabad

Dr Nalin Joshi Dr Nalini Jayanthi Dr Narayan Misra Dr Narendra Khipal Dr Naresh Kumar Arora
Jaipur Chennai Bhuvaneswar Jaipur Delhi

Dr Nasser Yusuf Dr Navaneeth Singh Dr Navin Dutt Dr Neeraj Gupta Dr Nikhil Sharangdhar
Calicut Chandigarh Jodhpur Jaipur Mumbai

Dr Nishanth Kumar Chouhan Dr Nishta Singh Dr Nithin Jain Dr Nitin Abhayankar Dr NK Jain
Jodhpur Jaipur Jaipur Pune Jaipur

Dr NT Awad Dr N Somasekhar Dr Om Prakash Dr P K Thomas Dr P R Mohapatra

Mumbai Bangalore Bangalore Chennai Bhuvaneswar

Dr P Ravindran Dr P Sukumaran Dr P Venugopal Dr PA Mahesh Dr Padmanabha Shenoy

Trivandrum Kottayam Alleppey Bangalore Kochi

Dr Padmavathi R Dr Pajanivel Dr Paramez AR Dr Parvez Ahamed Dr Parvez Kaul

Trivandrum Pondicherry Kochi Dehradun Srinagar

Dr Pattabhiraman VR Dr Paulo Varghese Akkara Dr PC Kathuria Dr P R Gupta Dr Prabhachandran Nair M G

Coimbatore Calicut Delhi Jaipur Trivandrum

Dr Prabhudas Motiani Dr Pradyudh Wagrey Dr Pradyumnan Sharma Dr Prahlad Prabhu Desai Dr Pranab Baruwa
Jodhpur Hyderabad Jaipur Mumbai Guwahati

Dr Pranab Mandal Dr Prashant Rajaram Kolte Dr Prashanth Chhajed Dr Pratibha Dongra Dr Praveen Malhotra
Hoogly Sindhudurga Mumbai Gurugram Panipet
Dr Praveen Valsalan Dr Prem Kumar Allena Dr Prem Prakash Gupta Dr Prince James Dr Priya Ramachandran
Kochi Visakhapatanam Rohtak Vellore Bangalore

Dr Priyadarshi Sharma Dr PS Battacharya Dr P S Shankar Dr P S Thampi Dr P T James

Kota Kolkotta Mumbai Mumbai Calicut
Dr PV Santhosh Kumar Dr PVP Rao Dr R Ajaykumar Dr R Narasimhan Dr R Venketeswara Babu
Manjeri Sangareddy Trivandrum Chennai Pondichery
Dr Radha Munje Dr Raj Kumar Dr Raja Dhar Dr Rajan Santhosham Dr Rajathilakam
Mumbai Delhi Kolkota Chennai Kollam

Dr Rajendra Prasad Takhar Dr Rajendran VR Dr Rajendraprasad Dr Rajesh Bhargava Dr Rajesh S

Kota Calicut Lucknow Aligarh Calicut

Dr Rajesh Solanki Dr Rajesh Swarnakar Dr Rajesh V Dr Rajiv Goel Dr Rajiv Paliwal

Ahamedabad Nagpur Kochi Delhi Karamsad

Dr Rajiv Santhosham Dr Rakesh Chawla Dr Rakesh Godara Dr Randeep Guleria Dr Ranjan Kumar Das
Chennai Delhi Jaipur Delhi Kolkota
Dr Ranjith U Dr Raseela Karunakaran Dr Raveendra Mehta Dr Ravi A Dosi Dr Ravi Santhosham
Kochi Alleppey Bangalore Indore Chennai

Dr Ravindra Babu Dr Ravindra Sarnaik Dr Ravindran C Dr Ravindran Nair M Dr Remakant Dixit

Vysakh Mumbai Calicut Trivandrum Ajmer

Dr Remesh Nair Dr RS Bedi Dr Raj B. Singh Dr Rekha K Dr Rennis Davis

Kochi Amritsar Chennai Kottayam Trissur

Dr Rinnette Sebastian Dr Ritabrata Mitra Dr Ritesh Agarwal Dr RK Jenaw Dr RK Mani

Kochi Kolkota Chandigarh Jaipur Delhi
Dr RMPL Ramanathan Dr Rohini Chougule Dr Rohith Sarin Dr Roy Santhosham Dr Sahajal Dhooria
Coimbatore Mumbai Delhi Chennai Delhi

Dr Sai P Haranath Dr RP Meena Dr RS Bhatia Dr Rupak Singla Dr R Sreedhar

Hyderabad Jaipur Jalandhar Delhi Chennai
Dr Sabir Mohammed Dr Sajeev Nair Dr Sanjeev Sinha Dr Salil Bhargava Dr Salil Bhendre
Bikanir Trivandrum Delhi Indore Mumbai
Dr Samir Sahoo Dr Sandeep HS Dr Sandeep Katiyar Dr Sandhya Nanjundaiah Dr Sangeetha
Bhuvaneswar Davengare Kanpur Bangalore Chennai

Dr Sanjeev Kumar Dr Sanjeev Mehta Dr Saurabh Karmakar Dr Shajahan PS Dr Sheetu Singh

Kannur Mumbai Kanpur Alleppey Jaipur

Dr Shoba Subramanyam Dr Sindhura Koganti Dr SK Chhabra Dr SK Jindal Dr SK Katiyar

Kochi Chennai Delhi Chandigarh Kanpur

Dr SK Sarkar Dr SN Gaur Dr Sonia Dalal Dr Sreekanth Krishnamoorthi Dr SreekanthTripathy

Jaipur Delhi Baroda Coimbatore Pune
Dr Subhakar Kandi Dr Subhasish Ghosh Dr Subhodip Pal Dr Subin Ahamed Dr Subra Jain
Hyderabad Kolkota Kolkota Kochi Jaipur
Dr Sudheendra Ghosh Dr Sudhir Chaudhri Dr Sudin Koshy Dr Suhail N Dr Sujeeth Rajan
Trivandrum Kanpur Trivandrum Perinthalmanna Mumbai

Dr Sundeep Salvi Dr Sonisha Gupta Dr Sunny George Dr Sunny Orathel Dr Suranjan Mukherjee
Pune Gaziabad Calicut Kochi Kolkota
Dr Surendra Kashyap Dr Suresh Koolwal Dr Suresh Kumar V K Dr Surya Kant Dr T Dhansekhar
Shimla Jaipur Calicut Lucknow Thanjavur

Dr T K Jayalakshmi Dr T K Ravindran Dr T Mohan Kumar Dr Tariq Mahamood Dr Thomas George

Mumbai Trissur Coimbatore Hyderabad Trissur
Dr Thomas Iype Dr Tinku Joseph Dr TP Rajagopal Dr Ujjwal Parakh Dr Uma Devi
Trivandrum Kochi Calicut Delhi Rourkala

Dr Umamaheswari Dr Umashankar Dr Umesh Chandra Oja Dr V Kesavan Nair Dr V Ramasubramanyam

Bangalore Pondicherry Delhi Trivandrum Chennai
Dr V Thanasekaran Dr Vijay Kumar Arora Dr Vikas Chandra Pilaniya Dr Vikas Marwah Dr Vinod Joshi
Chennai Delhi Jhunjhunu Pune Jaipur
Dr Virendra Singh Dr Vishal Chopra Dr Vishnu Sharma Dr Vivek Nangia Dr Vivek P
Jaipur Patiala Mangalore Faridabad Trivandrum
Dr Vivek Venugopal Dr VK Singh Dr Zareer Udwadia Dr Zia Hashim
Kochi Delhi Mumbai Lucknow
Scientific Programme

DAY-1-22-11-2019, FRIDAY

SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL
Session-1 CPC Meet the expert Meet the expert Meet the expert Radiology Pearls
8.30 am - 9 am “Setting up a transplant
unit- What
do you want to know”
Session-2 COPD– panel ILD – Panel Imaging Airway Napcon Free Paper
9.00 - 10:00 am discussion-1 discussion-2 1.HRCT differentiation Diseases – Panel award 1
A 65 year old Case of Systemic of obliterative discussion-3 Topic- Airway
ex-smoker having Sclerosis related ILD& A young adult attends Diseases
bronchiolitis from COP.
symptoms for the last a case of Sarcoidosis. the OPD with asthma Category >35 yrs.
10 years, being 2. Thoracic (6 scientific papers)
1. When to treat ultrasound-clinical 1. How will you assess
admitted 2-3 times SS-ILD? the severity? 7 minutes
with worsening in the applications- presentation +3
last one year 2.Is there any 2. How do you treat an
3. MRI and its role in uncomplicated minutes discussion
alternative to
1. Who are the risk cyclophosphamide respiratory diseases asthma?
group for frequent? /case presentations
exacerbation? 3.How to approach if 3. How do you
with MRI- approach a patient
she develops PAH
2. How will you with acute severe
proceed in this case? 4. When to treat a case
of sarcoidosis? asthma?
3. Will antibiotic 4. How do you advise
prophylaxis benefit? 5. How do we manage
extra pulmonary home management
4. Will immunization symptoms? including asthma
benefit? education?
6. Followup of the 5. Diagnosing ABPA,
5. What is the chance case showing
of admission to ICU is it that easy?
progression
and death in
suchcases?

Session-3 Pleural diseases – Lung Cancer – Panel How ICS-NCCP NIV Napcon Free Paper
10.00-11.15 am Panel discussion-4 discussion-5 guidelines help in Panel discussion 6 award 2
48 year-old female A case of Lung cancer patient treatment in 60 yr. old patient with Topic- Parenchymal
comes to your OPD. clinical practice pneumonia and Diseases
presented with
Doctor son of the 1-ICS NCCP hypoxic respiratory Category >35 yrs.
recurrent
patient asks guidelines on failure is treated under 7 scientific papers-7
pneumothorax.
1. Role of PET in lung Bronchoscopy your care. minutes presentation
She had high ADA
cancer- (use or 2-ICS-NCCP 1.When do you decide +3 minutes
pleural effusion along
misuse) guidelines on ILD. whether he needs discussion
with BPF earlier.
2. Role of screening for 3. ICS-NCCP oxygen support or NIV
1.What do you do in
early detection guidelines on 2. If NIV, what mode
this case?
3. Whether the patient Immunization. you prefer
2. Do you always
needs targeted 4. NCCP Guidelines on 3. What are the newer
follow the guidelines?
Nebulization. modes and how to
3. In Persistent air leak, molecular therapy for
do you prefer Medical non-small cell lung troubleshoot if
or surgical cancer? warranted?
management? 4.What are emerging 4. Role of NIV in ARDS.
4. How do you therapeutic options in 5. Role of home NIV in
approach a Small Cell Lung chronic lung diseases.
pneumothorax in ICU? cancer? 6.Role NIV in hypoxic
5. What is the role of 5. What you mean by respiratory failure
Pulmonologist in the treatment with curative
management of BPF? intend?
6. Throracoscopy in
high ADA pleural
effusion; will it benefit
Indian patients?
SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL
Session-4 ICS Orations (1&2)
11.15-12.15 pm
Session-5 Bronchoscopy Case Based How Indian Mechanical Napcon Free Paper
12.15-1.30 pm Panel discussion 7 Discussion multicentric data helps Ventilation award-3
How I do in my Speaker should in patient treatment? Panel discussion 8 Topic- Airway
practice? prepare appropriate 1.SWORD survey A 62 yr. old patient Diseases
53 yr old patient case to discuss 2. Global Asthma with COPD is admitted Category <35 yrs
1. Lung Contusion Network study. as AE COPD 7 scientific
having a shadow in
2. Lungs in burn 3. EMBARC Registry. 1.When do you initiate papers-7 minutes
skiagram- suspected
victims 4. Antibiotic MV in this patient? presentation +3
malignancy.
3. Lungs in guidelines. 2.How safe is MV in minutes
1.When do I decide on AECOPD?
drowning. discussion
bronchoscopy? 4. Lungs in Paraquat 3.What are the
2.Will you do poisoning. strategies to improve
bronchoscopy if he is a 5. Lipoid pneumonia. outcome?
high-risk patient. 4.He developed ARDS
3.What is the role of in the ward, How to
bronchoscopy if he improve outcomes
has haemoptysis? when on MV?.
4.When do you opt for 5. What are the
Common practice
Tracheo bronchial
points in invasive
stenting in malignant
ventilation?
and non-malignant
6. What will you do in
lesions of lungs. difficult weaning
5.When do you prefer situations?
EBUS in such cases?
Session-6 Air pollution – Panel Palliative Care – Panel Thoracic Surgery – Case Based Napcon Free Paper
1.30-2.30 pm discussion-9 discussion-10 How do I do it in my Discussion. award-4
55 Yr old housewife A 66Yr old female is practice? Provide case scenario Topic- Interventions
suffering from ILD 1. Surgical Lung Biopsy to illustrate Category <35 yrs
with respiratory
(possible UIP) with in ILD – When to 1.Esophagus related 6 scientific papers-7
symptoms
resting SpO2 80%. consider? Lung diseases. minutes presentation
1. Role of indoor air
1. Who are candidates 2. Surgery in COPD – 2.Reno-pulmonary +3 minutes
pollution as a cause of syndromes.
for palliative care and Why, Where and discussion
her symptoms. 3.CAD in COPD &
when to refer to When?
2. What are the health 3. Palliative Surgery in Sleep apnoea
palliative care?
consequences of 2. What homecare Lung Cancer.
biologic air pollutants? providers should 4. Is there any role for
3. Burning of plastics know? decortication?
in the household and 3.What are the
its health indicators for palliative
consequences care?
4. Do diesel exhaust 4. How far should we
cause such illness? prolong medical
5. How does Delhi support?
5. How to set up a
smog affect our
palliative care center?
health?
Session-7
NCCP Oration (1&2)
2.30-3.30 pm
Infections Debate Debate Referee-1 CPC Practice Points
Session-8
1.Influenza – Indian Mild OSA – to treat or
3.30-4 pm
data, treatment and not? Theophylline in COPD 1.Vapour Ablation in
prevention should we continue COPD.
2. Current the current practice in 2. Structured Light
immunosuppressants/ India? Plethysmography
immunomodulators &
pulmonary infections
SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL
Session-9 Symposia Lung Cancer – How I Lung Surgery- How I Respiratory Infections Napcon Free Paper
4-5 pm 1. Physiological use in do in my practice? Case Based award-5
adaptation for high my practice? 1. When do we decide Discussion Topic- Pleural
1. Immunotherapy for on VATS? Antibiotic choice -" Diseases
altitude.
NSCLC. 2. Surgery in right drug for the right category >35 yrs
2. Solitary Pulmonary
2. Navigational Tuberculosis – Is it bug" 6 scientific papers- 7
Nodule
bronchoscopy for indicated? 1. A case of CAP minutes presentation
3. Treating allergic diagnosis of peripheral 3. Treatment of bullous 2. A case of HAP /VAP +3 minutes discussion
bronchopulmonary lung tumours. disease 3. Pneumonia in an
aspergillosis 3. Management of immunocompromised
metastatic lung cancer. host
How I do in my 4. A case of
practice? post-transplant
infection

Session-10 Symposia Symposia Symposia Symposia National Quiz-

5-6 pm 1.How smoking 1.Managing hypoxia 1. Is it a connective 1.Palliative Care in Semifinals
modifies inflammation and assessments of tissue disease? Chronic Respiratory
and immunology of respiratory patients for Antibody patterns that Disease
asthma? air travel. the pulmonologist 2.Adult vaccination in
2. Small airways and 2.End-of-life care should be aware of. obstructive airway
hyperresponsiveness specific for patients in diseases
in asthma and COPD? the intensive care unit . 2. Undifferentiated 3.Pulmonary
3. Macrolides, 3.Update on ECMO in systemic rheumatic rehabilitation in IPF
inflammation and the hypoxaemia - diseases and overlap
lung microbiome: 4.Update on ECCO2R syndromes: when can
cause or effect? in hypercapnia we diagnose interstitial
4. Eosinophils in pneumonia with
COPD: do they predict autoimmune features
drug response? (IPAF)?
3.When swallowing
disorders meet
respiratory diseases: a
clinical point of view.

DAY-2, 23-11-2019, SATURDAY

SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL

Session-1 Meet the Expert Meet the expert Clinical radiographic & Meet the expert Expert View
8.30-9 am Experience in setting a Adherence to inhaled pathological CT guided biopsies -
medication How we correlation
severe asthma unit where are we today.
can influence?

Interventions ILD – Panel Imaging Asthma – Panel Napcon Free Paper

Session-2 discussion-11 discussion-12 award-6
1. Medical 1.Basic interpretation of
9-10.15 am
thoracoscopy and its A 55 yr old patient CT Chest Severe Asthma in India Topic- Pleural
evolving role in the developed ILD which -Identification of lobes – Case study of Severe Diseases
management of was initially diagnosed and segments asthma to be category <35 yrs
pleural diseases. as having 2.Pulmonary presented. 7 scientific papers-
2. Indwelling pleural indeterminant for UIP ground-glass opacity 1.Approach to Severe 7 minutes presentation
Catheters and pattern & prescribed (GGO): An emerging asthma and Difficult to +3 minutes discussion
IPC-Plus. Pirfenidone. After 6 radiological entity treat asthma–
3.Role of months he consults 3.Preventing End 2.Phenotyping and
micro-debrader you & you diagnose stage fibrosis - Role of eosinophils in
4. Which do you prefer him as hypersensitivity Effective use of HRCT Severe Asthma
in MT; Laser or pneumonitis. for early diagnosis of
Electrocautery 1. When do I prescribe IPF 3.Role of currently
Pirfenidone in my 4.Lung nodules - available Biologicals in
SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL
practice? Severe Asthma
Fleischner Society
2. What are the
guidelines and general
evidences and 4.Approach to Severe
approach.
experience in using Asthma- When to
Pirfenidone in Non IPF consider Biologicals
ILD? and when to consider
3. How do I make a BT.
choice between
Pirfenidone and
Nintedanib?
4. How do you
approach the
Indeterminate UIP
pattern?
5. What are the
management Issues
you face in Chronic HP
related Fibrosis?

Session-3 Tuberculosis Global Symposium Lung Transplantation Sleep Disorders Napcon Free Paper
10.15-11.30 am 1. The recurring lymph ILD-US perspective - International Panel Discussion-13 award-7
node TB – always with ILD- UK Perspective perspective A 60-year-old male Topic- Interventions
sensitive MTB on ILD Indian perspective 1.Lung Transplantation with a BMI of 32 category >35 yrs
CBNAAT! - in UK –Indications and presents with day time 7 scientific papers-7
2. CT picture in early Outcomes –data- minutes presentation
somnolence. He was
TB – do we miss, do 2.Lung Transplantation +3 minutes discussion
subjected to
we over-diagnose? in India – Indications
polysomnography-
3. Current and Outcomes – our
data- 1. How do you interpret
epidemiology of NTM
3.Sepsis In post- a Polysomnogram
in India / Are we
grossly missing transplant patients report?
diagnosis and 2. How will you select
treatment of NTM in a device for OSA
India? management?
4.Current international 3.Is there any
guidelines for treatment
diagnosis and beyond C- PAP
treatment for NTM 4.What are new
(BTS) generation devices for
positional therapy for
patients with positional
obstructive sleep
apnoea(POSA)
5. How will you advise
life style modification
for this patient?

Session - 4
NCCP Oration (3&4)
11.30-12-30 pm

Session-5 Debate Debate Debate Debate Lung Diseases in

12.30-1 pm Thoracoscopy- Rigid is EUS is better than Portable system vs Choice of biological in women
better than flexi-rigid. EBUS for staging of PSG for diagnosis of overlapping 1.Global burden of lung
Lung Cancer. OSA phenotypes-
cancer in women.
Needed or not
2.Burden of lung
diseases in India.
SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL
Session-6 Tuberculosis – Panel International Critical Care NCCP-Prof. SN Gaur ICS- Talent Search
1-2.30 pm discussion-14 Symposium Panel Discussion-15 young scientist award Interactive Case
A patient with PUO of 1.NIV (90 Min) discussion- Finals
3 months comes to 2. ABG 1.Monitoring in ICU- 9 papers
OPD. On HREZ for last 2.Antibiotic selection in 7 minutes
3.Monitoring tool for
critically ill presentation+ 3
2 months. respiratory diseases- A
minutes discussion
1.When do you case-based approach 3.End of life care
prescribe HREZ in a 4. Severe Asthma
new symptomatic management, towards 4. Ethical practice in
patient? stratified medicine, the ICU.
2. Do we need to rule UK experience
out DR at the outset? 5.Infection control in
3. Gold standard for ICU
diagnosis of drug
resistance.
3.Molecular diagnosis
of MDR – how to deal
with discordant results
4. Dealing with “MTB
detected - very low, Rif
resistant” and “MTB
detected – low, Rif
resistant” results.
5.True NAAT – a new
test for Rif Resistance.
Session-7
ICS Oration (3&4)
2.30-3.30 pm

Session-8 Allergy Smoking Cessation Miscellaneous COPD Napcon Free Paper

3.30-4.45 pm 1. Allergen 1. Innovations in 1. Pharmacotherapy of 1. Treating COPD award-8
immunotherapy for the implementing smoking exacerbation and the Topic- Lung Cancer
ILD-
treatment of chronic impact of The category >35 yrs
cessation 2. Pan Airway
asthma - How I use in REDUCE trial 7 scientific papers 7
2. Newer forms of
my practice? Disease. minutes presentation
Tobacco. Better or 2. Expiratory Dynamic
2. Sublingual +3 minutes discussion
Worse or unknown? Airway Collapse
immunotherapy for
3. Vaccine for Nicotine 3.FOT and IOS (EDAC) - what the
asthma – How I use in
my practice? addiction? techniques in Pulmonologist needs
3. Tailored 4. Smoking cessation conducting PFT to know.
interventions based on drugs and its current 3. COPD and
sputum eosinophils position in smoking eosinophilia - current
versus clinical cessation. concepts.
symptoms for asthma 4. Emphysema
in children and adults. phenotypes and its
4. Patient education clinical significance.
protocol to control
exposure to indoor
allergens.

Session-9 National Quiz- Finals ILD updates General Topics Newer drugs in airway Napcon Free Paper
4.45-6 pm 1 Progressive fibrosing 1.Medical law & Ethics diseases award-9
ILD (PF-ILD). 1. Newer biological. Topic- Lung Cancer
2.Leadership skill.
2. Learning 2. New LABAs category <35 yrs
3.Writing a research
experiences from 3. New LAMAS 7 scientific papers.
article.
conducting the India 4. Transdermal patch 7 minutes presentation
4. Finance
ILD registry. in asthma +3 minutes discussion
management for
3. Granulomatous
doctors?
ILD-How do we
proceed next?
DAY-3- 24-11-2019, SUNDAY

SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL
Session-1 Translating evidence Year in Review Year in Review Meet the expert Approach to
8.30-9 am from clinical trials Asthma COPD. How to set up a sleep perplexing cases.
The changing face of unit?
COPD
(3 Latest clinical
trials)

Session-2 Respiratory Infections RNTCP Symposia Pulmonary Vascular Asthma Napcon Free Paper
9.00 - 10:00 am Panel Discussion 16 1.End TB programme- Disorders 1. Evolving concepts of award-10
A case of respiratory Dream to reality 1. Treatment of PTE: phenotypes and Topic- Parenchymal
infection comes to 2.Revised guidelines- Conventional endotypes in asthma: Lung Diseases
OPD an appraisal treatment versus Novel Implication in clinical category <35 yrs
1. How do I write a 3. What is new in drug oral anticoagulants practice 6 scientific papers 7
prescription? resistant TB? 2. New concepts and 2. Asthma & COPD – Minutes presentation
2. Poor response in 1 4.Use of Bedaquilin & clinical controversies in two sides of the same +3 Minutes discussion
week: How do I Delamanid in India PAH coin-
proceed? 3. Pulmonary 3. How does
3.Follow-up clinical embolism imaging Childhood asthma
situation in the case to -challenges and differ in the
warrant long term controversies. management?
macrolide therapy. 4. When to suspect 4. Pitfalls in the
4.Follow-up clinical chronic thrombo- management of
situation to discuss embolic PH-an Asthma – my
penicillin resistant overview on experience
pneumococci. management.

Session-3 Drug Resistant Pulmonary Rare Diseases Critical care Newer molecules
10:00-11 am Infections – Panel Rehabilitation 1. Many faces of 1. Cough augmentation 1.Newer anticancer
Discussion-17 1. Rehabilitation bronchiolitis and techniques for airway molecules-
1. How do you strategies in ICU organizing pneumonia clearance in critically ill 2.Biologicals in Lung
approach this case if it survivors after critical 2. Cystic lung diseases patients. cancer
is due to MDR Gram illness- – diagnostic approach 2. Extracorporeal 3.Immunomodulators
negative organisms? 2. Yoga for Holistic & considerations- membrane in CTD-ILD
2 How do you Rehabilitation in IPF 3. Idiopathic oxygenation (ECMO) in 4.Newer targets in
approach this case if it and COPD. tracheopathy/ treating patients with asthma Therapy-
is due to MDR Gram 3. Rehabilitation orphan severe respiratory
positive organisms? programs after acute tracheopathies- how to failure.
3. How to manage if exacerbations of evaluate 3. Aerosol therapy in
due to Virus? COPD. 4. Common congenital patients on mechanical
4. Can this be due to 4. How to setup a anomalies of lung ventilation.
region specific Tropical state-of-the-art 4. Invasive candidiasis
infections? Pulmonary in critically ill patients
5. How to proceed if Rehabilitation center in ICU: diagnosis and
resolution is delayed in management
this case?

Session-4 Tuberculosis- How do I Lung Cancer Pulmonary Vascular Sleep Miscellaneous

11:00-12 Pm deal? Panel 1. Radiofrequency Disorders 1. Anti- snore devices . 1. Translational
discussion-18 ablation in lung mass - 1. Estimation of near 2. Principles in the Research in
1. Clinical diagnosis of How do I do? arterial pressure in management of Respiratory Medicine:
TB – diagnosing TB 2. How do I do staging PAH-Comparison of insomnia. 2. Communication skill
when all the tests are work up of Lung different approaches - 3. OSA-Selection of and breaking bad
negative (CBD) cancer. How do I do? patients for surgical news - How do I do?
2. Newer drugs in TB 3. Sequencing of 2. Suspecting management. 3. Career options for
(Practical experience Tyrosine Kinase pulmonary 4. Tips for success of the young Indian
sharing from centers hypertension in CPAP therapy. pulmonologist-
SESSION/TIME PAMBA HALL
widely using these Inhibitors (TKI) in Lung
drugs) (CBD)
3. Update on current
management of DR TB
in RNTCP
4. MDR/XDR in India
Session-5 Pleural Diseases -
12:00-1.00 pm How I do or should
ideally deal?
1.Biomarkers in pleural
diseases - An update-
2. Pleural biopsy - An
underutilized 2. Empirical anti-fungal
technique?
3. Pleural manometry
- Is it useful in clinical infections in critically ill
practice?
4.Imaging of pleural
diseases - An overview
1.00pm-2 .00pm Valedictory Function
Conference Secretariat:
Department of Pulmonary Medicine,
Rajagiri Hospital,
Chunagamvely, Aluva, Kerala-683112
napcon2019@gmail.com | www.napcon2019.com
PERIYAR HALL NILA HALL CHALIYAR HALL KABANI HALL
dyspnoeic
cancer. How do I do? patient-who, when
4. Chemotherapy for &how? (CBD)
advanced NSCLC. 3. Combination
How do I do? therapy in pulmonary
arterial hypertension
How do I do?
4. Assessment,
prognosis and guideline
implementation in
pulmonary arterial
hypertension - How do I
do?
Infections - Pneumonia - COPD Expert View
How I do or should How I do or should 1. Comparative 1.Basic science: “a
ideally deal ideally deal? evaluation among primer for the
1. Non-culture 1.Necrotizing various choices in practicing clinicians”
diagnostics in fungal pneumonia (TB LABA, LAMA & ICS Physicians to have an
diseases. mimics) available in India. insight into basic
2. Bacterial infection 2. Efficacy and safety cellular and molecular
therapy and its role in and COPD - cause or of immunology and
prevention of fungal effect? Glycopyrrolate/Formot genomics-
3. PCP in HIV and erolin in patients with 2. Withdrawal of
patients- non- HIV patients COPD. ( Personal overprescribed inhaled
3. Long term 4. Bronchoscopy Experience) corticosteroids in
macrolide therapy in should we make it a 3. Triple therapy in patients of COPD in
respiratory Diseases- routine in pneumonia? COPD: what is known clinical practice-
4. Sepsis Surviving and what is not? 3.Roflumilast- a critical
Campaign guidelines- 4. Pharmacological appraisal
strategies to reduce
exacerbations in
COPD.
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