0830

Registration

0900 – 1000

Panel Discussion: Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia

Chair: S K Jindal

Panel: S K Kashyap, J Whig, P Koul, Pallab Ray

1000 – 1100

Symposium: Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients Sponsored by Philips Respironics

Chair: R Guleria

Diagnosis of VAP: strategies and controversies

D Talwar

Management of ventilator associated pneumonia

G C Khilnani

Health care associated pneumonia

D Gupta

1100 – 1115

TEA

1115 – 1215

Symposium: Contemporary Issues in Tuberculosis

Chair: D Behera

Role of IGRA in diagnosis of active tuberculosis

A N Aggarwal

Drug resistant tuberculosis: Indian scenario

V Chopra

Vaccines for tuberculosis: current status

P R Gupta

1215 – 1315

Symposium: Suppurative Lung Diseases : Indian Epidemiology and Management Issues

Chair: Jai Kishan

Lung abscess

A K Janmeja

Non-tubercular empyema

U P S Sidhu

Bronchiectasis

K B Gupta

1315 – 1415

LUNCH

1415 – 1500

Symposium: Pneumonia Prevention

Chair: Sanjay Jain

Vaccination for CAP/LRTIs in adults: Indian scenario

R Guleria

Strategies to prevent nosocomial pneumonia

N Singh

1500 – 1530

Sepsis Quiz (Sponsored by Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine)

1530 – 1630

Symposium: Pulmonary Fungal Infections

Chair: Subhash Varma

Advances in laboratory diagnosis

A Chakrabarti

Candida: effective and cost-effective treatment

P Malhotra

Aspergillus: hypersensitivity, colonization or invasion?

R Agarwal

1630 – 1700

Illustrative Clinical Cases

Chair: Dheeraj Gupta

1700

Quiz Answers and Concluding Remarks