The second day of 13th National Conference on Cardiodiabetology discussed miraculous drugs and revolutionary techniques which will make life of patients of diabetes and heart disease easy.
In a special session on diabetes Dr PC Manoria highlighted that three revolutionary drugs have emerged for treatment of diabetes. The management of diabetes in past had focused on pancreas and liver but now with the help of new drug SGlT-2 inhibitors, diabetes will now be managed by increased passage of glucose in the urine also and this will help in better control of sugar in blood, he added.
Dr S Venkata Ram, Hyderabad deliberated on current practices in hypertension and said that ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is very useful in day to day management of hypertension. It facilitates choice of drug, its timing and dosages. Infact the control of blood pressure is best assessed by this technique.
Dr Pankaj Manoria said that new drugs which decrease stickiness of the blood are very useful in management of patients of heart attack. They optimize the results of angioplasty, decreases mortality and minimizes the risk of blockage of stents in future.
Dr Brian Pinto (Mumbai) spoke on percutaneous aortic valve replacement and they said that this non surgical technique will prove to be a boon for sick patients of aortic stenosis.
Dr Vivek Jawali, Bangalore spoke on new techniques in bypass surgery and said that bypass surgery can also be done in awake position which is termed as awake bypass surgery.
Dr Sanjay Pandya, Rajkot spoke on fluid and electrolytes balance in critically ill patients and explained which fluid in what quantity should be administered to which subset of patients.
Post Graduates from different colleges of the country presented several research papers which were widely appreciated. The programme was largely attended by doctors from all over the country and Nepal.