Enhance Your Skills in First Trimester Ultrasound with This Comprehensive CME Activity

This practical, clinically oriented Continuing Medical Education (CME) activity provides a thorough review of recent advances in first trimester ultrasound. It covers a range of topics, including comprehensive normal fetal anatomy, abnormalities of major organ systems, and updates to guidelines and indications for imaging in the first trimester.

Learning Objectives

• Assess normal fetal anatomy in the first trimester
• Explain the indications and national guidelines for first trimester ultrasound
• Optimize scanning parameters and techniques for the first trimester ultrasound examination
• Review major fetal malformations that can be diagnosed in early gestation
• Discuss the use of ultrasound in screening for fetal aneuploidy in the first trimester

Program Overview

This CME activity features a stellar lineup of expert speakers, including Reem S. Abu-Rustum, M.D., FACOG, FACS, FAIUM, Alfred Abuhamad, M.D., Bryann Bromley, M.D., Mary E. Norton, M.D., and more. Topics include:

• Review of AIUM and ISUOG’s First Trimester Guidelines: How Do They Differ?
• Optimizing Your Image in First Trimester Scanning
• Pregnancy Dating & Elements of Pregnancy Failure
• Expanded Genetic Testing with Cell-Free DNA: What’s an Optimal Approach?
• Ultrasound in the Diagnosis & Management of Ectopic Pregnancy
• The Role of First Trimester Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Multiple Pregnancies
• Case Presentations and interactive sessions
• First Trimester Ultrasound: The Fetal Brain, Heart, Gastrointestinal Tract, and more
• Examination of the Fetal Brain in 2D & 3D
• Genetic Evaluation of Fetal Anomalies in the First Trimester
• The Placenta & Umbilical Cord in Early Gestation
• O-RADS Assessment of Adnexal Masses: Why, When, and How
• US Evaluation of Acute Pelvic Pain
• BI-RADS US Review
• Ectopic Pregnancy: Here, There and Everywhere
• O-RADS US in Daily Clinical Practice: Test Yourself! A Case-Based Presentation
• Adenomyosis: How to Make the Diagnosis with Ultrasound
• US Evaluation of the Gravid Cervix: Measurements and More
• Guidelines for Performing a 2nd/3rd Trimester Level 1 Obstetrical Sonogram
• Commonly Missed GYN Diagnoses on US
• Obstetrical US “Aunt Minnie’s”

Released on 09/15/23, this CME activity is an essential resource for healthcare professionals looking to enhance their skills in first trimester ultrasound.