30^th Aug

Re-Look to Move forward

• Head position in Neurocritical Care: Are we getting it right ?
• Hyperventilation in TBI
• Increase in PEEP on ICP and Pbo2: Should you bother?
• Hypothermia: Old talk ...What Next?

Brain Health

• Cerebral Oxygenation in critical care : Strategies to optimise
• How best to Monitor the uninjured Brain. Neuromonitoring What ? Why ? How ? To prevent and identify cerebral complications
• Fluid Management in Neurocritical Care : New insights and personalised management
• Neuroinflammation and biomarkers in acute brain injury : Can we predict Prognosis ?

Stroke of Genius

• Choosing Antithrombotics after Acute Ischemic Stroke : Does one size fit all
• Neurovascular disease in Pregnant Patient
• Pushing boundaries for Thrombolysis in Stroke : The paradigm of Late window and tissue window Thrombolysis

Brain under pressure : Tackling complexities in Neurocritical Care

• Blood Pressure management in ICH and AIS
• Optimizing Long-term Sedation to Facilitate Sleep Homeostasis
• Brain Death : Optimising organ function - Challenges and solutions

Prof G.S. Umamaheswar Rao Oration

• Curing Coma : A grand challenge for Neurocritical Care Worldwide

Lunch on session : Quick Bites

• Biofire for Meningitis : Tool worth it ?
• Procalcitonin : When to order ? How to Interpret ?
• Albumin in Neurocritical Care
• EVD maintenance : 10 Things NOT to do

TED Talks

• Extubation in NCC: Dealing the Dilemma
• TEG Platelet mapping : Applications in Neurocritical Care
• Pupillometry : A Window into the Brain
• IVIG vs PLEX in GBS : How to choose ?
• 3% NS ,THE SALT: Story and Screenplay
• Apnea Test : Tackling Confounders

Bleed No more

• Predicting and preventing ICH expansion
• Surgical evacuation and Intraventricular Thrombolysis for ICH : Better than Medical Management alone ?
• Resuming Antithrombotics after ICH
• Post Procedure intracranial hemorrhages

Debate

• When it is Status Epilepticus the second line should be Anti epileptic drugs or Anesthesia ?
• Resuscitation Fluid in TBI should be Isotonic Saline or Balanced Crystalloids ?

Panel Discussion

• The tale of Diffuse Injury : Managing TBI in diverse situations . What works ? Where it works ?

How I Do it

• Diaphragm USG
• Brain USG
• Lung Ultrasound

Inaugration
Inaugral Dinner and Culturals

31^st Aug

Controversies to conclusions

• EARLY DRAIN : Lumar CSF drain in SAH
• Airway in Cervical Spine : Is FOB guided intubation the past ?
• Managing Hemorrhage with Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
• Corticosteroids in Traumatic SCI: Here to stay ? Or it's out ?

Situationships

• HFNO in NCC
• When going gets tough: The refractory vasoplegic shock
• Ketamine in Refractory Status Epilepticus: First or Last ?
• It’s the Fire not the ICE: Cooling devices and Fever prevention in Neurocritical Care
• Practical Approach to Hyponatremia
• Delirium : Fix it
• Tranexamic acid : When ?
• Are there any Neuroprotective drugs ?

Neurocritical Synergies Plenary session

• Precision Medicine in Neurocritical Care
• Transfusion triggers in Traumatic Brain Injury
• EEG monitoring in the ICU: is something else beyond assessment of epileptic activity?
• Brain-Lung connections in Neurocritical care

NCS Panel

• Embracing technology to improve outcomes in neurocritical care of hemorrhagic stroke
• Multimodal Monitoring in TBI
• Brain Injury after Cardiac arrest
• Autoregulation in Severe TBI : Basic Principles and management

The Saviours : Choosing Empiric Antibiotics in NCC - Case based learning discussions

• Milrinone in Vasospasm. A Wonder drug ?
• Technology : Extracorporeal CO2 removal in Brain injury with ARDS, Alleviates the effect of permissive hypercapnoea ?
• Beyond Medications: Proactive measures against DVT
• The storm and the confounders : PSH vs the sepsis paradigm
• Teir 4 medical management for ICP : Current trends, utility and futility
• Closed loop ventilation

Trials in SAH : Where are we heading ?

• ARDS : A different ballgame in Neurocritical Care ?
• Glycemic control in acute brain injury : are we there ?
• Nutrition : Challenges in NCC

Pro-Con

• Contrast Induced Nephropathy: Is a Myth
• Prophylactic Antibiotics help to prevent VAP in Ventilated patients with TBI

Panel Discussion

• What do I do ? Ethical and legal aspects of Practice in Neurocritical care when dealing with futility and end of life care

How I Do it (VIDEO SESSION)

• HITS
• TEE
• Carotid Doppler
• TCCD
• Cardiac Output
• ONSD : Are we doing it right ?

Annual General Body Meeting

Banquet and Gala Dinner

Trainee corner

• Therapeutic time windows in Acute Ischemic stroke- Action plan
• Cerebral hyperperfusion and NPPB
• Managing Pediatric TBI in the ICU
• Post neurosurgical Meningitis
• Feed intolerance- Management
• Sedation practices in ICU with inhalational agents

QUIZ FINAL

Posters

01^st September

• Assessing Fluid Responsiveness
• Diuretic in critically ill
• Brain and the GUT
• Urgent reversal of anticoagulation in NCC

• Value of Evoked Potentials in Neurocritical care
• Pediatric Neurocritical Care
• Impact of sedative choice on brain and lung injury outcomes
• AI in Neurocritical care : How far we are ?

• Diagnosis of sepsis in NCC : Where we are heading ?
• Dermatologial issues : From benign to lethal
• NCSE: EEG patterns that mandate escalation to burst suppression
• DCI : Beyond Vasospasm

• Prx and CPPopt : Is it practical ??
• Prolonged autonomic instability
• C diff : Strategies to mitigate and Manage
• Outreach Neurocritical care

• Tele ICU : will it work for NCC ?
• Myths in Neuro ICU
• Hyperosmolar theraphy : Trigger, Target and Termination
• Base Excess : Reloaded
• Early mobilisation : Benefits and pitfalls