First monthly meet 2012-13 & CME

Pune Chapter MSBIRIA

Snippets

16th May 2012

The first monthly meeting of Pune Chapter of MSBIRIA with the new office

bearers took place on 16th May 2012 at the Dr D Y Patil Auditorium. The

meeting was attended by 140 delegates. The monthly meeting and the ½

day CME was held with an aim to sensitize the students and consultants on

pediatric chest infections in the era of H1N1 influenza. The CME began with

dinner and followed by a short 3 minutes introduction to the event and CME

by our president Dr Satish Naware. The first lecture was the clinician’s

perspective and then proceeded to radiological investigations in a step-by-

step manner covering conventional radiology, cross sectional imaging such

as CT and finally interventions. A question and answer session was held after

every lecture.

Pune Chapter MSBIRIA Monthly meet and half day CME on

Pediatric Chest Infections

First meeting at Dr D Y Patil

Hospital, Medical College

and Research centre for the year 2012-2013

Highlights

First half day CME and

monthly meet to receive 1

MMC credit hour for delegate

and 2 for faculty

Felicitation of Dr K R

Choudhary, Professor Emeritus

2 Dr Padmashree D Y Patil Hospital: [16th May 2012]

What a clinician expects from imagiologists

Clinicians perspective Dr S R Agarkhedkar

“What a clinical expects

from radiologists”

The important point was

conveyed in a precise

manner to the audience

by Dr S R Agarkhedkar.

Select case studies

proved the point and the

audience jotted down

notes.

The talk highlighted

proactive reporting, with a

need to be specific in

diagnosis at the same

time recognize patterns of

various disease processes.

3 Dr Padmashree D Y Patil Hospital: [16th May 2012]

How to improve upon chest radiography.

Do’s and don’ts in pediatric chest imaging.

Chest radiography – a game of shadows!

Dr (Col) Vivek Sharma gave a detailed overview of

how to diagnose pediatric chest infections and

disease pattern analysis in pneumonias and

tuberculosis.

The lecture was indeed though provoking and helped

in igniting many a mind and inspiring students to take

up reading Felson with zeal and enthusiasm.

Consultants found revisiting chest radiography worth

the effort, they were able to update their information

and revise reporting to make it more informative.

Conventional Radiology

Dr (Col) Vivek Sharma

4 Dr Padmashree D Y Patil Hospital: [16th May 2012]

CT protocol, planning in pediatric chest and discussion of select

case studies.

Dr Priscilla Joshi

5 Dr Padmashree D Y Patil Hospital: [16th May 2012]

The lecture by Dr Priscilla

Joshi on Pediatric Chest

CT and select case studies

was very informative.

The lecture started with

the basics of CT chest

imaging and planning.

CT protocols were

discussed in detail and

importance and

precautions while using IV

contrast were revised.

Various MDCT protocols

were discussed in detail.

Finally the select case

studies helped the

residents to get a bird’s

eye perspective of chest

imaging.

Felicitation of Dr K R Chaudhari, Professor

Emeritus

Interventions in pediatric chest Dr Yadav Munde

Pediatric chest infections

such as empyema are

quite common.

Adequate and successful

drainage is necessary and

vital to help reducing

mortality and morbidity.

Plenty of case studies

were discussed and

various methodologies’ to

tackle such complicated

issues were imbibed.

Vascular and nonvascular

interventions were

discussed in detail.

The lecture was a glimpse

to the students and

consultants to the vast

scope of applications in a

super speciality field of

interventions in pediatric

chest.

Concluding remarks

The meeting concluded with a 2 minutes, vote of thanks by Dr Amit Kharat, Secretary, Pune Chapter, IRIA

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