Enhancing Obstetric Care: 45th Annual Course on Antepartum and Intrapartum Assessment

In its 45th year, this prestigious course covers the latest developments and best practices in antepartum and intrapartum assessment and clinical management in obstetrics. Designed for physicians, midwives, obstetric nurses, and trainees, this comprehensive course equips participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide exceptional care to mothers and newborns.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Counsel patients regarding prenatal carrier screening and aneuploidy screening
• Manage and treat headaches in pregnancy
• Appropriately manage category II fetal heart rate tracings in labor
• Describe and apply the new ACOG antenatal testing guidelines
• Describe and manage appropriate follow-up of gestational diabetes postpartum
• Manage and treat selected maternal medical complications of pregnancy and delivery using evidence-based guidelines

Course Outline

Thursday, June 2, 2022

• 7:00 AM: On-site Registration and Continental Breakfast
• 7:45 AM: Live Stream Webinar Opens
• 8:00 AM: Introduction by Mary E. Norton, MD, and Aaron B. Caughey, MD, PhD (MODERATOR)
• 8:15 AM: Aneuploidy Screening: A Rational Approach by Mary E. Norton, MD
• 8:45 AM: Carrier Screening: An Update for 2022 by Teresa Sparks, MD, MAS
• 9:15 AM: Common Ultrasound Findings: When to Worry? by Brian L. Shaffer, MD
• 9:45 AM: Questions and Answers
• 10:05 AM: Coffee Break
• 10:25 AM: Advocating for Evidence-based Obstetric Practice by Amy (Meg) Autry, MD
• 10:55 AM: Headaches in Pregnancy by Morris Levin, MD
• 11:25 AM: Medicaid Policy and Reproductive Health Equity by Maria I. Rodriguez, MD, MPH
• 11:55 AM: Questions and Answers
• 12:15 PM: Lunch (individually arranged)
• 1:30 PM: Gestational Surrogacy by Kate Swanson, MD
• 2:00 PM: Prediction Tests for Pregnancy Complications: Do They Work? by Nasim C. Sobhani, MD
• 2:30 PM: Supporting Vaginal Birth and Preventing the First Cesarean – Lessons from California by Melissa G. Rosenstein, MD, MAS
• 3:00 PM: Questions and Answers
• 3:20 PM: Coffee Break
• 3:40 PM: Embedded Mental Health Services in the Obstetric Home: A Stepped-Care Approach by Amanda Yeaton-Massey, MD, PMH-C
• 4:10 PM: Iron Deficiency Anemia in Pregnancy, 2022: We Can Do Better by Deirdre J. Lyell, MD
• 4:40 PM: Buprenorphine Induction in Pregnancy by Dominika Seidman, MD, MAS
• 5:10 PM: Questions and Answers
• 5:30 PM: Adjourn

Friday, June 3, 2022

• 7:00 AM: Continental Breakfast
• 7:50 AM: Live Stream Webinar Opens
• 8:00 AM: Whats New with IOL? by Robyn A. Lamar, MD, MPH
• 8:30 AM: Update on Cholestasis by Erika F. Werner, MD
• 9:00 AM: How High is Too High? HTN in Pregnancy by Martha Tesfalul, MD
• 9:30 AM: Questions and Answers
• 9:50 AM: Coffee Break
• 10:10 AM: The ABCs of Hepatitis by Stephanie L. Gaw, MD, PhD
• 10:40 AM: Preterm Birth Prevention, What Now? by Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MS
• 11:10 AM: CA Maternal Mortality CMQCC by Maurice L. Druzin, MD
• 11:40 AM: Questions and Answers
• 12:00 PM: Lunch (individually arranged)
• 1:30 PM: Category II Fetal Heart Tracings – What to Do – No More O2? by Aaron B. Caughey, MD, PhD
• 2:00 PM: Improving FHR Monitoring: Is it Possible? by William M. Gilbert, MD
• 2:30 PM: The Pit at? by Meghan Duck, RN, CNS
• 3:00 PM: Questions and Answers
• 3:20 PM: Coffee Break
• 3:40 PM: Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Interactive Session with Faculty Panel
• 5:10 PM: Questions and Answers
• 5:15 PM: Adjourn

Saturday, June 4, 2022

• 7:00 AM: Continental Breakfast
• 7:50 AM: Live Stream Webinar Opens
• 8:00 AM: ALPS: Still a Good Idea? by Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MS
• 8:30 AM: From Home to Hospital: Improving Safety for Homebirth Transfers by Rebecca H. Amirault, CNM
• 9:00 AM: Follow-Up of Gestational Diabetes by Erika F. Werner, MD
• 9:30 AM: Questions and Answers
• 9:50 AM: Coffee Break
• 10:10 AM: Update on Antenatal Testing Guidelines by Marya G. Zlatnik, MD, MMS
• 10:40 AM: Update on Alloimmunization by Juan M. Gonzlez-Velez, MD, PhD
• 11:10 AM: Postpartum Hemorrhage by Frederico Rocha, MD, MS
• 11:40 AM: Questions and Answers
• 12:00 PM: Adjourn

P = Nursing Pharmacology Credit

F = Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Credit