Bankers Group of Hospitals 14th annual academic conference, CardCon 2017 was a grand success! More than 650 doctors from across the country attended the interactive symposium that focused on advancements in the cardiological field, specifically on the practical front. CardCon 2017 was also live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook for the benefit of those who could not attend the conference. It is great to know that Bankers Group of Hospitals provided hands-on training for Advanced cardiac life support ,ECHO & ECGs.
Some of the interesting topics were –
- ECG Based Case Dilemmas
- The Science of Running for the Heart
- Revolution in Pacemaker
- Managing Acute MI in 2017
- Resistant Heart Failures: Drugs to Devices to Transplants
- RBBB – When is it significant?
- Cathlab Nightmares
- Emerging Concepts in Cardiac Surgery
- Lipid Update
- Bedside clinics –Valvular heart disease & Cardiomyopathy
The conference was held in Vadodara on the 30th of September and 1st of October at The Gateway Hotel. The event started with Dr Parul Banker sharing “Expanding Horizons” highlighting some of Bankers Group of Hospital’s achievements in the last year including information about their new wing, ICU, OT theaters,dialysis unit,mortuary facilitiy along with a looking into the unique medical cases that they encountered and successfully treated, including 2 life saving Swine Flu cases and identification and treatment of the very rare Crimean-Congo Fever.This past year, Bankers Hospitals acquired Vadodara’s FIRST ECMO machine, IVUS and FFR Machines as well as a new CathLab. She also informed the audience that Bankers Heart Institute was the first in Vadodara to successfully perform advanced procedures like TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) & Leadless Pacemaker.
The audience also learnt about the Group’s award winning CSR activities. They were recently shortlisted for the Gujarat Government’s CSR Awards as well.
Dr.Darshan Banker gave insight on ‘Functional Angioplasties/ IVUS guided Angioplasties’. His vast experience in performing these challenging angioplasties was a great takeaway for the audience! He highlighted how new technology, such as the Intra Vascular Ultra Sound, can make complicated Angioplasties less risky, more precise thus, having a better outcome for the patient.
CardCon was conducted in two sessions simultaneously – one focusing on speaker presentations and the other on discussion and debates. The sessions were centered on practical techniques, cases and issues. It should be noted that this year, the topics were crowd sourced where the participants suggested topics that they wished to discuss. The session was an interactive platform with computerized audience poll system. This led to high participation, and enthusiasm, from the attendees and led to a more fruitful discussion.
Doctors and medical professionals also had a wonderful opportunity to interact with one another and network. With these opportunities to collaborate, we can hope that they will find new methods, techniques and technologies to alleviate the pain of those suffering and enhance the quality of life of our society as a whole.
The conference ended with a talk on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, a life saving machine for critically ill patients and with the promise to make CardCon’ 2018 an even bigger success.
Dr.Parul Banker has expressed her gratitude to doctor friends for their unconditional support, family and friends for their continuous encouragement,patients and relatives for their trust and Banker’s team for their dedication.
