Workshop on Neurotology

Update on Medical Workshop

Very much like the previous 10 years, this year too I will be conducting 3 day workshop on Neurotology & Medical Audiology from 26th to 28th of Feb (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) 2010. However unlike the other years this time it will be in MUMBAI and not in KOLKATA. The primary venue will be the very prestigious SAHARA STAR hotel just adjacent to the Mumbai airport - a venue that does justice to the high tech subject of NEUROTOLOGY.

The objective of the course will be to orient ENT practitioners and neurologists on the latest technique in diagnostic neurotology like- ASSR, VNG, VEMP, TCD, stabilometry and other such modalities like ENG, BERA, OAE and also to update them on the our current understanding of the maintenance of balance and the consequent changes in management of the balance disorder patient. The best of international and national faculty including Prof. (Dr) Giorgio Guidetti, professor of Therapy and Vestibular rehabilitation at the School of Specialisation in Audiology and Vestibulology at Modena, Italy has consented to participate as faculty. Other luminaries will include Mr. Calloe Johannes from Denmark and Dr. Gian Mazzoni from USA. The best of Indian faculty including Dr. M V Kirtane and other such stalwarts will also be there to present their expertise. A special session on dispensing of modern digital hearing aids will be a part of the workshop.

A tentative schedule of the workshop is attached alongwith

11th COURSE
on
NEUROTOLOGY
and
MEDICAL AUDIOLOGY
for
OTOLARYNGOLOGISTS
and
NEUROLOGISTS
*
ON
26th to 28th FEBRUARY, 2010
*
Venue:
*
SAHARA STAR hotel
Mumbai
*
to be conducted by Dr. Anirban Biswas along with Dr M V Kirtane, Dr Alok Thakar and others

Course Schedule

*26th February 2010 FRIDAY*
9.00 AM	Does this patient really need a COCHLEAR IMPLANT or would a HEARING AID be good enough? The indication for cochlear implant and hearing aids -which one when?.
	Dr. M.V. Kirtane, Dr. Gauri Mankekar, Dr. Shankar Medikary, Dr. Rajesh Vishwakarma

10.30 AM	Routine hearing tests are normal yet the patient complains of hearing problems – the vexing issue of CENTRAL DEAFNESS.
	Dr. Anirban Biswas

11.15 AM	Respite for 15 minutes with TEA

11.30 AM	The other options in between hearing aids and cochlear implants BAHA, IMPLANTABLE Hearing Aids, VIBRATING SOUND BRIDGE etc. --indications, methodology, outcomes
	Dr. Rajesh Vishwakarma

12:30 PM	What happens inside the brain when a sound stimulus is presented to the ear -BERA, ASSR and all the other high tech auditory evoked potentials like MLRs and LLRs in the no-man`s land between the mid brain and the auditory cortex
	Dr. Calloe Johannes (Denmark

1.15 PM	L U N C H

2.00 PM	Continuation of the above topic with a complete demonstration on different auditory evoked potential instruments available

3.00 PM	FALLACIES of the AUDIOLOGICAL TESTS -the biggest menace in clinical otology
	Dr. Anirban Biswas

4.00 PM	T E A B R E A K

4.30 PM	FALLACIES of the AUDIOLOGICAL TESTS continued…

5 PM	STABILOMETRY – documenting the imbalanced patient`s stability and using this new modality of diagnostic neurotology in therapy of the imbalanced patient.

*27th February 2010 (Saturday)*
9.00 AM	The enigma of the HUMAN BALANCE SYSTEM the reflexes the strategies to maintain balance the special role of COGNITION in the maintenance of balance evolving the strategies to prevent imbalance
	Prof. Giorgio Guidetti ( Modena, Italy)

10.30 AM	T E A B R E A K

11.00 AM	Continuation of the above topic
	not the one just above, the one still above it

12.00 NOON	Investigating the Vestibular System by Occulography –ENG + VNG
	Dr. Anirban Biswas

1.00 PM	L U N C H

1.45 PM	Continuation of the above topics and demonstration of Videonystagmography

3.00 PM	Other tests to evaluate the vestibular system -VEMP and ECochG with demonstration.
	Dr Gian Mazzoni (USA)

4.30 PM	Specific anemnesia History taking and clinical tests- Methodology, documentation and interpretation:- computerised and manual. Computerised diagnosis and prescription generation
	Prof. Giorgio Guidetti ( Modena, Italy) & Dr Anirban Biswas

*28th February 2010 (Sunday)*
9.00 AM	Therapeutics and strategies in important vestibular syndromes
	Dr. M V Kirtane- Meniere`s Disease Dr. Anita Bhandari- Migraine Related Vertigo Dr. Anirban Biswas- Vestibular Neuritis Dr. Alok Thakar- Acute Labyrinthine Failure Dr. Giorgio Guidetti- BPPV and other forms of positional vertigo Dr. Chetna Naik- Epileptic Vertigo

10.30 AM	TEA BREAK

11.00 AM	Management of non-specific vertigo and controversies in the management of vertigo
	Dr. Anirban Biswas

11.45 AM	Psychological Disorders and vertigo Management of psychogenic vertigo
	Dr Vahai

12.30 PM	Syncope and stroke presenting as vertigo

1.00 PM	L U N C H

1.45 PM	The Wonder of contemporary Hearing aids how modern electronics can be used to mimic cochlear function and be packaged into a contemporary hearing aid
	Dr. Anirban Biswas

2.30PM	TEA

2.45 PM	Continuation of the previous topic

3.30 PM	ASSR and OAE
	Dr Calloe Johannes (Denmark)

For further details and for registration please contact:-
Mr Rahul Sharma, c/o Dr Anirban Biswas, 1/ A , Raja Subodh Mullick Square (2nd-floor),Kolkata- 700013
Registration fees Rs 2500/- to be sent to the above address as cheque/draft payable in Kolkata to “Dr Anirban Biswas, course in Neurotology and Audiology”.
Venue of the course will be SAHARA STAR hotel opposite domestic airport MUMBAI
Dates 26th to 28th February 2010
Phones – 09831477573, 03322370023, 03322252555,
Telefax – 03323215763
e-mail – anirbanbiswas@vsnl.com