High Risk & Critical Care OB Course (Oct 15 - 16, 2019)

High Risk & Critical Care OB Course is organized by Professional Education Center (PEC) and will be held from Oct 15 - 16, 2019 at UC Davis MIND Institute, Sacramento, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 16 Hours CE Credits.

Why You Must Attend:
• Understand Risks, Hazards, & Warning Signs
• Recognize disease states that increase risk status for pregnant women
• Understand measures to improve oxygen transport and tissue perfusion
• Recognize the compromised woman and implement Life Saving Care

Program Objectives:
• Review data and discuss theories re. the rise in maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.
• List the most common medical diagnoses that cause critical illness and death in pregnancy.
• Review normal physiologic changes in pregnancy and the impact of these on care management of the high risk and critically ill woman.
• Understand the components of cardiac output and identify normal hemodynamic parameters in pregnancy and how to optimize values.
• Outline assessment parameters that may indicate maternal compromise.
• Discuss the components of oxygen transport physiology, consumption and measures to improve oxygen transport and tissue perfusion.
• Understand pulse oximetry technology and utilization.
• List the purposes and indications for invasive hemodynamic monitoring in pregnancy, and potential complications.
• Discuss technology use to monitor adult hemodynamics.
• Interpret patient care data presented from selected case studies and utilize critical thinking concepts to critique clinical management based on the pathophysiology of hemodynamic instability, hypovolemia from hemorrhage, severe preeclampis and HELLP.
• Compare cardiogenic and noncardiogenic pulmonary edema.
• Explain the pathophysiologic responses associated with pulmonary embolus, and management strategies and goals associated with care of the obstetric woman with an acute pulmonary complication.
• Outline the most common causes of hemorrhage in pregnancy.
• Discuss the pathophysiology of hypovolemia and DIC.
• Review management of hemorrhage and DIC; volume resuscitation principles and blood component therapy to imporve maternal outcome.
• Discuss classification of hypertension in pregnancy.
• Review pathophysiology and clinical presentation of severe preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, and review algorithms for management of severe hypertension.
• Outline the types of cardiac disease/lesion and pregnancy risk.
• Identify management concepts for cardiac disease in pregnancy.
• Review the definitions for range of diseases known as sepsis and their commmon causes and diagnostic markers.
• Discuss the sepsis bundles and how it is used in pregnancy
• Discuss collaboration between healthcare services/ agencies when a mother becomes critically ill during the OB course.
• Discuss initial and ongoing education including simulation and skills validation.