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IAN GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF COMMON NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

 
As we are all aware many of the common neurological disorders - Epilepsy, Stroke, Headache, Parkinson’s disease, Neuroinfections, etc are necessarily treated by primary care physicians in view of enormous shortage of neurologists in our country. I believe the care by the primary physicians can be improved substantially if only certain guidelines are formulated.  
 
In this regard the Indian Epilepsy Society has released a book containing guidelines for the management of epilepsy in India which will go a long way in improving epilepsy care through primary care physicians. This book was released in the recent ECON 2008 conference and is also available on the website: www.epilepsyindia.org  
 
It would be a very good idea if IAN can formulate guidelines to treat some common neurological conditions, something similar to AAN guidelines. This was put forth to the Executive Committee members of IAN who overwhelmingly endorsed the idea. Accordingly the following members are requested to be the conveners for each topic.  
 
TOPIC   CONVENOR COMMITTEE MEMEBERS
1)Headache Dr. K Ravishankar Dr. Ambar chakravarthy                                                                       Dr. Rakesh Shukla,                       
Dr. Debashish Choudhary
Dr. Sumit Singh 
(2)Common Demyelinating   Disorders  
(Bells Palsy, GB
syndrome multiple sclerosis)		 Dr J M K Murthy Dr. S. K. Khadilkar,
Dr. A. K. Meena
Dr. Mathew Alexander,
Dr. Lekha Pandit,
Dr. Amrit Saxenam
(3)Movement disorders             
(Other than Parkinson’s  Disease)		 Dr Uday Muthane. Dr. Rupam Borgohain,
Dr. Asha Kishore
Dr. Pramod Pal,
Dr. Charu Sankhala
(4) Stroke Dr. Kameshwar Prasad Dr. Subhash Kaul
Dr. M.V.P. Srivastav
Dr. S.P. Gorthi
Dr. Dheeraj Khurana
Dr. Rohit Bhatia
(5)Parkinson's disease Dr. Madhuri Behari Dr. Asha Kishore
Dr. Charu Sankhla    
Dr. Garima Shukhla
Dr. Kalyan Bhattacharya
Dr. Uday Muthane.
Dr S K Das
Dr Pramod Pal
Dr. Rupam Borgohain.
(6) Neuroinfections Dr. U K Mishra  
 
The Guidelines are expected to be released during IANCON 2009 at Cochin and also uploaded on to the website of IAN.
The guideline will also be printed and circulated free to primary care physicians if any pharmaceutical company is willing to meet the expenses. The copy rights of the IAN guidelines will be with IAN only.