COURSE PROGRAM - 11th July 2024, Thursday

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
02.00 pm Welcome of the Indian Stroke Association, WSO, WFITN, ESO, SVIN  
Overview and Keynote lectures
02.30 pm Global burden of Stroke Dr. Jeyaraj Pandian
02.55 pm Evidence of Stroke treatment 2024 - EVT and IVT Dr. Pooja Khatri
03.20 pm Unanswered questions in acute Stroke treatment 2024 Dr. Urs Fischer
03.45 pm Q & A
   
04.00 pm Tea Break
 
Stroke Management and Stroke Imaging
05.00 pm Organisation of a Stroke Center and stroke workflow Dr. Thomas Meinel
05.25 pm Acute Stroke imaging: what do we need for treatment decisions? (CT/MR) Dr. Andrew Demchuck
05.50 pm Perfusion imaging in patient selection for acute Ischemic Stroke Dr. Bijoy K Menon
06.15 pm Cone-beam Flat Panel imaging: New imaging capabilities in the angio suite Dr. Eike Piechowiak
06.40 pm Q & A

COURSE PROGRAM - 12th July 2024, Friday

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
State of the Art: Thrombolysis
08.00 am IVT: Indications and how to manage complications Dr. Padma Srivastava
08.25 am IVT in patients with preceding anticoagulation Dr. Thomas Meinel
08.50 am IVT prior, during or after EVT? Dr. Jan Gralla
09.15 am Q & A
   
09.30 am Tea Break
 
State of the Art: Thrombectomy
10:00 am EVT: Techniques Dr. Blaise Baxter
10:25 am EVT: when to refuse a patient for EVT in LVO Dr. Bijoy Menon
10:50 am Hot topic: medium and distal vessel occlusion: how to treat? Dr. Wim Van Zwam
11:15 am Q & A
 
Roads less travelled
11:30 am Cerebral venous thrombosis: Acute medical management, IVT & thrombectomy Dr. Diana Aguiar de Sous
11:55 am Intracerebral hemorrhage: medical management Dr. Craig Anderson
12:20 pm Intracerebral hemorrhage: neurosurgical indications Dr. Girish Menon
12:45 pm Ocular and spinal ischemia Dr. Vinit Suri
01:10 pm Q & A
   
01:25 pm Lunch Break
 
WORKSHOP - PARALLEL SESSIONS
ROOM 1 - SESSION 1 - NEURO INTERVENTION WORKSHOP
02:30 pm - 04:00 pm Faculty:
Dr. Jan Gralla
Dr. Mathew Cherian
Dr Eike Piechowiak		 Dr. Gaurav Goel
Dr. Chinmay Nagesh
Dr. Jayadevan
   
04:00 pm Tea Break
 
ROOM 1 - SESSION 2 - NEURO INTERVENTION WORKSHOP
04:30 pm - 06:00 pm Faculty:
Dr. Wim Van Zwam
Dr. Blaise Baxter
Dr. Thomas Meinel		 Dr. Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy
Dr. Santhosh Kannoth
Dr. Jose Paul
 
ROOM 2 - CASE DISCUSSION
  Session 1
02:30 pm – 03:00 pm Case 1: Case of MCA occlusion, unable to
recanalise (staged escalation)
Panelist: Dr. Wim Van Zwam, Dr. Blaise Baxter, Dr. Santhosh Kannoth 		Dr Wim Van Zwam,
Dr. Santhosh Kannoth
03:00 pm – 03:30 pm Case 2: Case of M1 occlusion with low NIHSS
Panelist: Dr. Pooja Khatri, Dr. Sylaja P N, Dr. Mukesh Sharma, Dr Jayanta Roy		 Dr. Mukesh Sharma,
Dr. Jayanta Roy
03:30 pm – 04:00 pm Case 3: Peripheral stroke case M2/M3/Peripheral stroke case P1/P2
Panelist: Dr. Urs Fischer, Dr. Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy, Dr. Girish Kulkarni		 Dr. Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy,
Dr. Girish Kulkarni
   
04:00 pm Tea Break
   
  Session 2
04:30 pm – 05:00 pm Case 4: Antiplatelet /Anticoagulant decision intraprocedural and post procedure

Panelist: Dr. Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Dr. P Vijaya, Dr. Chirag Ahuja		 Dr. P Vijaya,
Dr. Chirag Ahuja
05:00 pm – 05:30 pm Case 5: Stentriever vs Aspiration preference
Panelist: Dr. Jan Gralla, Dr. Mathew Cherian, Dr. Kaushik Sundar		 Dr. Mathew Cherian,
Dr. Kaushik Sundar
05:30 pm – 06:00 pm Case 6: Case of Carotid-T, double stent retriever technique
Panelist: Dr. Jan Gralla, Dr. Jayadevan ER, Dr. N R Ichaporia,
Dr. Deepthi Vibha		 Dr. Jan Gralla,
Dr. Deepthi Vibha
     
06:00 pm - 07.00 pm INAUGURATION  

COURSE PROGRAM - 13th July 2024, Saturday

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
Difficult clinical settings I
08.00 am Treatment beyond guidelines: low NIHSS - IVT and EVT Dr. Pooja Khatri
08.20 am Late window patient selection – IVT Dr. Diana Aguiar de Sous
08.40 am Late window patient selection – EVT Dr. Jayadevan E R
09:00 am EVT in posterior circulation stroke Dr. Aravind H R
09:20 am EVT in venous pathologies Dr. Eike Piechowiak
09.40 am Q & A
   
09.50 am Tea Break
 
Difficult clinical settings II
10:20 am How to avoid and treat complications during EVT and later Dr. Jan Gralla
10:40 am Medical management for ICAD Dr. Arvind Sharma
11:00 am EVT in ICAD – Current strategies Dr. Vipul Gupta
11:20 am Q & A
Hot topics, case-based discussion
11:30 am Acute ischemic stroke with tandem occlusion Dr. Gaurav Goel
11:50 am Wake-up stroke Dr. Sylaja P N
12:10 pm Frail patients with multiple co morbidities and EVT Dr. Subhash Kaul
12:30 pm Collaterals in the thrombectomy decision making Dr. Andrew Demchuk
12:50 pm Q & A
01:00 pm TNK vs Alteplase in acute ischemic stroke Dr. Bijoy K Menon
   
01:30 pm Lunch Break
 
WORKSHOP - PARALLEL SESSIONS
ROOM 1 - SESSION 1 - NEURO INTERVENTION WORKSHOP
02:30 pm - 04:00 pm Faculty:
Dr. Jan Gralla
Dr. Jose Paul
Dr. Joseph Leve		 Dr. Kaushik Sundar
Dr. Aravind HR
Dr. Jayadevan ER
   
04:00 pm Tea Break
 
ROOM 1 - SESSION 2 - NEURO INTERVENTION WORKSHOP
04:30 pm - 06:00 pm Faculty:
Dr. Wim Van Zwam
Dr. Thomas Meinel
Dr. Eike Piechowiak		 Dr. Chinmay Nagesh
Dr. Chirag Ahuja
Dr. Santhosh Kannoth
   
 
ROOM 2 - CASE DISCUSSION
  Session 1
02:30 pm – 03:00 pm Case 7: Case of stroke treatment in ICAD anterior circulation/Case of stroke treatment in ICAD posterior circulation
Panelist: Dr. Dileep Ramachandran, Dr. Chinmay Nagesh,
Dr. Blaize Baxter		 Dr. Dileep Ramachandran,
Dr. Chinmay Nagesh
03:00 pm – 03:30 pm Case 8: Stroke case with tandem lesion intracranial plus atherosclerotic ICA stenosis
Panelist: Dr. Eike Piechowiak, Dr. Wim Van Zwam,
Dr. Sapna Sreedharan		 Dr. Eike Piechowiak,
Dr. Sapna Sreedharan
03:30 pm – 04:00 pm Case 9: Lytics after MT
Panelist: Dr. Meinel, Dr. Bijoy Menon, Dr. Urs Fischer,
Dr. Praveen Kesav		 Dr. Meinel,
Dr. Praveen Kesav
   
04:00 pm Tea Break
   
04:30 pm – 05:00 pm Session 2
  Case 10: Bleed after MT – management
Panelist: Dr. Jan Gralla, Dr. Jose Paul, Dr. Joseph Levi		 Dr. Jose Paul,
Dr. Joseph Levi
05:00 pm – 05:30 pm

Case 11: Case of a hemodynamically symptomatic ICA dissection
Panelist: Dr Jan Gralla, Dr. Pawan Ojha,
Dr. Deep Das, Dr. Piyush Ohja

 Dr. Deep Das,
Dr. Piyush Ohja
05:30 pm – 06:00 pm Case 12: Chronic carotid artery occlusion - indication and technique
Panelist: Dr. Jan Gralla, Dr. Blaise Baxter, Dr. Thomas Iype		 Dr. Jan Gralla,
Dr. Blaise Baxter

COURSE PROGRAM - 14th July 2024, Sunday

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
Challenges in acute stroke treatment (20 minutes)
15 mts each session
08.00 am IVT in paediatric stroke Dr. Vinayan K P
08.15 am EVT in paediatric stroke Dr. Vivek Nambia
08:30 am CEA and CAS: when to use what for symptomatic carotid stenosis Dr. Shivanesan P
08:45 am Asymptomatic carotid stenosis – When to intervene Dr. Diana Aguiar de Sous
09:00 am Q & A
09:10 am Moya Moya disease – Patient selection and revascularization strategies Dr. Jayanand Sudhir
09:30 am Periprocedural stroke management (anesthesia, blood pressure, etc.) Dr. Manikandan S
09:50 am Decompressive craniectomy – Indications – Practical aspects Dr. Rohit Bhatia
10:10 am Q & A
   
10:20 pm Tea Break
   
Secondary prevention of stroke
10:40 am ESUS – Diagnosis and management Dr. Andrew Demchuk
11:00 am Antithrombotic treatment in management of ischemic stroke Dr. Dheeraj Khurana
11:20 am NOAC in cardioembolic stroke – Guidelines Dr. Urs Fischer
11:40 am Stuttering lacunar strokes and management Dr. Sajith Sukumaran
12:00 noon Recent advances in stroke rehabilitation Dr Abhishek Srivastava
12:20 pm Small vessel disease – Treatment aspects Dr. Sunil K Narayan
12:40 pm Q & A
12:20 pm
Valedictory function || LUNCH