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🗓️ 19 & 20 September 2026

Scientific Programme

Two days, two halls, a full line-up of sessions, orations and workshops at ISACON Puducherry 2026

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Hall A

Day 1 — 19 Sept 2026
08.00 am – 08.30 am
☕ Registration
08.30 am – 08.45 am
🩺 Apnoeic oxygenation & Peri-intubation oxygenation
Speaker: Dr Priyanga Kumar (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Latha N (Chennai)
08.45 am – 09.00 am
🩺 Physiologically difficult airway
Speaker: Dr Sunil Kumar Valasareddy (Tirupathi)
Chairperson: Dr Satyaprakash MVS (Puducherry)
09.00 am – 09.15 am
🩺 SALAD technique
Speaker: Dr Sherine Bright B (Madurai)
09.15 am – 09.30 am
🩺 Pro – Con: Regional Anaesthesia in Morbid Obesity
Speaker: Dr Arish BT (Puducherry)
09.30 am – 09.45 am
🩺 Pro – Con: Regional Anaesthesia in Morbid Obesity
Speaker: Dr Rani P (Puducherry)
09.45 am – 10.00 am
🩺 Context Sensitive Half Life & Compartment Models in IV Anaesthetic Drugs
Speaker: Dr Prabu G (Salem)
10.00 am – 10.15 am
🩺 Fundamentals of Target Controlled Infusion
Speaker: Dr Prasanna Bidkar (Puducherry)
10.15 am – 10.30 am
🩺 Preop Optimisation of a Patient with LV Failure for Time Sensitive Surgeries (Recent MI within 3 months)
Speaker: Dr Sivakumar (Puducherry)
10.30 am – 10.45 am
☕ Tea Break
10.45 am – 11.00 am
🩺 Best Practices in Labour Analgesia
Speaker: Dr Sakthirajan P (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Kumudha Lingaraj (Chennai)
11.00 am – 11.15 am
🩺 Full Stomach Parturient for Category I LSCS
Speaker: Dr Ramya G (Kanyakumari)
Chairperson: Dr Lenin Babu E (Puducherry)
11.15 am – 11.30 am
🩺 Failed Intubation in Emergency LSCS
Speaker: Dr Arthi A (Puducherry)
11.30 am – 11.45 am
🩺 Maternal Collapse After Delivery
Speaker: Dr Baranidharan S (Trichy)
11.45 am – 12.00 pm
🩺 OHSS in Assisted Reproductive Technology: Anaesthetic Considerations and Management Protocols
Speaker: Dr Nagalingam N (Puducherry)
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm
🩺 Obstetric Sepsis – Recent Trends in Management
Speaker: Dr Saravanakumar (Chidambaram)
12.15 pm – 01.00 pm
🎤 Oration — Every Patient, Every Anaesthetic, Every Time: Improving Patient Safety in Routine Anaesthetic Practice
Speaker: Dr Selvakumar R (Madurai)
01.00 pm – 01.45 pm
☕ Lunch
01.45 pm – 02.00 pm
🩺 Opioid Free Anaesthesia in OSA Patients
Speaker: Dr Saneesh PJ (Trivandrum)
02.00 pm – 02.15 pm
🩺 AKI Bundle & Renal Biomarkers: Early Recognition, Prevention and Risk Stratification
Speaker: Dr Savitri V (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Amutha Rani R (Ramanathapuram)
02.15 pm – 02.30 pm
🩺 Perioperative Oliguria: Not Every Patient Needs Fluid — and Not Every AKI Needs Dialysis
Speaker: Dr Giridharan (Chennai)
Chairperson: Dr Sridhar (Thiruvannamalai)
02.30 pm – 02.45 pm
🩺 VEXUS & E-VEXUS
Speaker: Dr Joseph Rajesh (Puducherry)
02.45 pm – 03.00 pm
🩺 Approach to ABG with SID: Does SID Change Our Fluid Choice?
Speaker: Dr Nandhakumar (Chennai)
03.00 pm – 03.15 pm
🩺 Meeting the Metabolic Demands in a Critically Ill Patient
Speaker: Dr Kandasamy N (Puducherry)
03.15 pm – 03.30 pm
☕ Tea Break
03.30 pm – 03.45 pm
🩺 How to Set Optimal PEEP
Speaker: Dr Senthilnathan M (Puducherry)
03.45 pm – 04.00 pm
🩺 Driving Pressure Guided Ventilation
Speaker: Dr Nithish Mukunthan (Chennai)
Chairperson: Dr Saravanakumar S (Chidambaram)
04.00 pm – 04.15 pm
🩺 Closed Loop Ventilation — Intellivent ASV
Speaker: Dr Anusha Cherian (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Karthik VJ (Chennai)
04.15 pm – 04.30 pm
🩺 Weaning Failure
Speaker: Dr Balasubramanian M (Theni)
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Hall B

Day 1 — 19 Sept 2026
08.00 am – 08.30 am
☕ Registration
08.45 am – 09.00 am
🩺 Transfusion Trigger for Blood & Blood Products
Speaker: Dr Vijayakumar S (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Baskar (Cuddalore)
09.00 am – 09.15 am
🩺 Managing Mismatched Blood Transfusion Under Anaesthesia
Speaker: Dr Sangeeta Dhanger (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Arun Sundar (Villupuram)
09.15 am – 09.30 am
🩺 Massive Blood Transfusion
Speaker: Dr Sanmugapiriya K (Puducherry)
09.30 am – 09.45 am
🩺 Beyond PT, aPTT & Platelet Count — Does TEG Help in Making Neuraxial Decisions?
Speaker: Dr Radhika Mathiyazhagan (Bangalore)
09.45 am – 10.00 am
🩺 Balancing Thrombosis and Bleeding in an Anticoagulated Patient
Speaker: Dr Kirthiha G (Madurai)
10.00 am – 10.15 am
🩺 Patient with DVT for Time Sensitive Surgery
Speaker: Dr Charulatha R (Puducherry)
10.15 am – 10.30 am
🩺 Human Factors in Anaesthesia
Speaker: Dr Subbulakshmi Sundar (Cuddalore)
10.30 am – 10.45 am
☕ Tea Break
10.45 am – 11.00 am
🩺 Management of Intraop Anaphylaxis
Speaker: Dr Subramanian VV (Puducherry)
11.00 am – 11.15 am
🩺 Optimizing Local Anaesthetic Dosing for Neuraxial and Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Frail Older Adults on Polypharmacy
Speaker: Dr Sudhakar DS (Madurai)
11.15 am – 11.30 am
🩺 Electrolyte Disturbances in a Geriatric Patient with Hip Fracture
Speaker: Dr Manju Dhandapani (Puducherry)
11.30 am – 11.45 am
🩺 Atypical Presentations of TURP Syndrome
Speaker: Dr Ganesan (Trichy)
Chairperson: Dr Kulandaiyan
11.45 am – 12.00 pm
🩺 Rib Fractures with New-Onset Desaturation: When Pain Becomes a Respiratory Emergency
Speaker: Dr Bhuvana S (Thiruvallur)
Chairperson: Dr Srinivasan (Coimbatore)
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm
🩺 Unstable Patient, Negative E-FAST: Unmasking the Hidden Sources of Shock in Blunt Trauma
Speaker: Dr Anitha R (Puducherry)
12.15 pm – 01.00 pm
🎤 Oration — Every Patient, Every Anaesthetic, Every Time: Improving Patient Safety in Routine Anaesthetic Practice
Speaker: Dr Selvakumar R (Madurai)
01.00 pm – 01.45 pm
☕ Lunch
01.45 pm – 02.00 pm
🩺 Steroid Dependence — Replacement Dose and Anaesthetic Concerns
Speaker: Dr Shanmugavalli E (Puducherry)
02.00 pm – 02.15 pm
🩺 Normal Sugar Trap — Normal Blood Sugars on the Day of Surgery with High HbA1c for Elective Surgery
Speaker: Dr Kirubahar (Trichy)
Chairperson: Dr Shanmugasundaram (Chennai)
02.15 pm – 02.30 pm
🩺 Perioperative Management of Novel Oral Anti-Diabetic Agents: SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists
Speaker: Dr Srinivasan S (Puducherry)
02.30 pm – 02.45 pm
🩺 Achieving Euthyroid Status: Preoperative Medical Management
Speaker: Dr Pratheeba Durairaj (Madurai)
Chairperson: Dr Padmanabhan (Chengalpet)
02.45 pm – 03.00 pm
🩺 Abnormal TSH, Normal T3/T4: Can We Proceed with Elective Surgery?
Speaker: Dr Ramyavel (Puducherry)
03.00 pm – 03.15 pm
🩺 Acute Thyroid Decompensation in Surgery: Intraoperative Protocol for Thyroid Storm and Myxedema Coma
Speaker: Dr Indu K (Tanjore)
03.15 pm – 03.30 pm
☕ Tea Break
03.30 pm – 03.45 pm
🩺 HIPEC — Anaesthetic Challenges and Perioperative Strategies
Speaker: Dr Kausalya V (Chennai)
03.45 pm – 04.00 pm
🩺 ERAS Protocol — What Has Changed?
Speaker: Dr Suganya (Mangalagiri)
Chairperson: Dr Joseph Rajesh (Puducherry)
04.00 pm – 04.15 pm
🩺 Non-Intubated Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (NIVATS)
Speaker: Dr Muthu Kumar (Coimbatore)
Chairperson: Dr Sivakumar Periyasamy (Coimbatore)
04.15 pm – 04.30 pm
🩺 Ketamine Beyond Induction: New Roles for an Old Drug
Speaker: Dr Shanmugam L (Puducherry)
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Hall A

Day 2 — 20 Sept 2026
08.45 am – 09.00 am
🩺 Postural Pathophysiology — Impact of Surgical Positioning under Anaesthesia
Speaker: Dr Balachandar S (Karaikal)
09.00 am – 09.15 am
🩺 Venturi & Bernoulli in Anaesthesia: Physics That Changes Practice
Speaker: Dr Vijay Anand G (Tirunelveli)
09.15 am – 09.30 am
🩺 Endothelial Glycocalyx: The Forgotten Organ in Perioperative Medicine
Speaker: Dr Sudheesh K (Bangalore)
Chairperson: Balamurugan (TVM)
09.30 am – 09.45 am
🩺 Recent Guidelines in Stroke Management
Speaker: Dr Kavudevi (Tirunelveli)
Chairperson: Olvyna De Souza
09.45 am – 10.00 am
🩺 IONM
Speaker: Dr Ramanan (Chennai)
10.00 am – 10.15 am
🩺 Navigating Anaesthetic Choice in Patients with Recent Intracranial Haemorrhage
Speaker: Dr Ramamani (Vellore)
10.15 am – 10.30 am
🩺 Cardio-Pulmonary Interactions — Ventilator Is a Haemodynamic Intervention, Not Just a Respiratory Intervention
Speaker: Dr Raghavendran S (UAE)
10.30 am – 10.45 am
☕ Tea Break
10.45 am – 11.00 am
🩺 Preoperative ECG Red Flags for the Anaesthesiologist
Speaker: Dr Ajay Jha (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Balasubramanian (Kilpauk)
11.00 am – 11.15 am
🩺 ECHO Relevance for Anaesthesiologists
Speaker: Dr Amritha Ganesh (Chennai)
Chairperson: Ezhil Rajan
11.15 am – 11.30 am
🩺 Patient with Closed Coronary — Treat Heart First or Surgery First
Speaker: Dr Anil Radhakrishnan Pillai (Trivandrum)
11.30 am – 11.45 am
🩺 Refractory Hypotension After Induction
Speaker: Dr Manikandan S (Coimbatore)
11.45 am – 12.00 pm
🩺 Diastolic Dysfunction: The Anaesthesiologist's Hidden Haemodynamic Challenge
Speaker: Dr Ranjan RV (Puducherry)
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm
🩺 Forgotten Ventricle — RV and Its Anaesthetic Significance
Speaker: Dr Raj Mohan S (Puducherry)
12.15 pm – 12.30 pm
🩺 When Is It Time to Call ECMO? Recognising the Failing Patient Before It's Too Late
Speaker: Dr Rajkumar S (Madurai)
12.30 pm – 01.15 pm
🎤 Courtroom Skit
Speaker: Dr AL Meenakshi Sundaram
01.00 pm – 01.45 pm
☕ Lunch
01.45 pm – 02.00 pm
🩺 How I Do It? Incidental Complete Heart Block — How to Proceed in the Periop Period
Speaker: Dr Binil Isaac Mathew (Thrissur)
02.00 pm – 02.15 pm
🩺 The Fasted Patient: Rules, Reality and Gastric POCUS
Speaker: Dr Pratheeba N (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Kalasri
02.15 pm – 02.30 pm
🩺 How I Do It? Desaturation During OLV
Speaker: Dr Chitra Rajeshwari (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Vishwanath Hiremath
02.30 pm – 02.45 pm
🩺 How I Do It? Stellate Ganglion Block (Beyond Pain Management)
Speaker: Dr Vidya (Chennai)
02.45 pm – 03.00 pm
🩺 How I Do It? Cervical Plexus and Nerve Root Block
Speaker: Dr Madhan Pandian (Puducherry)
03.00 pm – 03.15 pm
🩺 How I Do It? Coeliac Plexus Block
03.15 pm – 03.30 pm
☕ Tea Break
03.30 pm – 04.30 pm
🎤 Quiz
Speaker: Dr Sivaramakrishnan, Dr Deepak Chakravarthy
04.30 pm – 05.00 pm
☕ Valedictory Function
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Hall B

Day 2 — 20 Sept 2026
08.45 am – 09.00 am
🩺 Choice of IV Fluid in Neonates
Speaker: Dr Sugandhi N (Puducherry)
09.00 am – 09.15 am
🩺 Reactive Airway in a Paediatric Patient
Speaker: Pushparani (SRM, Kattangulathur)
Chairperson: Dr Kamatchi Selvam V (Chennai)
09.15 am – 09.30 am
🩺 Autistic Child for Anaesthesia: What Should We Do Differently?
Speaker: Dr Kumaresan S (Melmaruvathur)
Chairperson: Dr Brindha R (Salem)
09.30 am – 09.45 am
🩺 Transitional Circulation and Anaesthetic Relevance
Speaker: Dr Omprakash (Karaikal)
09.45 am – 10.00 am
🩺 NORA — Approach to Neonatal / Paediatric MRI
Speaker: Dr Sarva Vinothini (Chennai)
10.00 am – 10.15 am
🩺 One Lung Ventilation in Paediatrics
Speaker: Dr Anitha Shirley Joselyn (Vellore)
10.15 am – 10.30 am
🩺 Anaesthetic Management of a Child with Tracheal Foreign Body
Speaker: Dr Vijayaragavan S (Chennai)
10.30 am – 10.45 am
☕ Tea Break
10.45 am – 11.00 am
🩺 ASRA 2025: From Fixed Intervals to Individualized Risk Assessment
Speaker: Dr Kriti Chaudhary (Rajkot)
11.00 am – 11.15 am
🩺 PDPH: Does the Needle Really Matter?
Speaker: Dr Nandhini P (Puducherry)
11.15 am – 11.30 am
🩺 When the Spinal Is Not Enough: Managing Inadequate Neuraxial Anaesthesia — Repeat Spinal or Rescue GA
Speaker: Dr Gopalakrishnan K (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Sivashanmugam (Puducherry)
11.30 am – 11.45 am
🩺 Inadvertent Dural Puncture: Intrathecal Catheter or Resite the Epidural?
Speaker: Dr Velmurugan B (Madurai)
Chairperson: Dr Suresh Kumar (Villupuram)
11.45 am – 12.00 pm
🩺 Is the Perineural Catheter Becoming Obsolete? Catheters vs Adjuvants in Modern Regional Anaesthesia
Speaker: Dr Archana Areti (Coimbatore)
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm
🩺 Regional Anaesthesia in Patient with Pre-existing Neurological Diseases
Speaker: Dr Senthilkumar Praveenkumar (Mumbai)
12.15 pm – 12.30 pm
🩺 USG Guided Neuraxial Block
Speaker: Dr Jarupulla Parvathi (Puducherry)
01.00 pm – 01.45 pm
☕ Lunch
01.45 pm – 02.00 pm
🩺 ATLS 11: From ABCDE to xABCDE
Speaker: Dr Niveditha Jayanthi Bodra (Rajkot)
Chairperson: Dr Hemanth Kumar V R
02.00 pm – 02.15 pm
🩺 How I Do It? Failed Lung Isolation with Double Lumen Tube
Speaker: Dr Noel Marie Pio Samy (Puducherry)
Chairperson: Dr Stalin V
02.15 pm – 02.30 pm
🩺 Modern Vascular Access Strategies in Chemotherapy Patients
Speaker: Dr Ramya (Puducherry)
02.45 pm – 03.00 pm
🩺 How I Do It? USG Guided Caudal
Speaker: To be announced