High Risk Postpartum and Obstetric Patients:
Advanced & Updated Strategies for Clinical Practice
Live Sessions — May 2 & 3, 2024
Don’t let the stress of an OB emergency stop you from providing the best care possible.
Join your trailblazing expert presenters who walk the talk. Not only will they synthesize the latest coming from evidence but will also deliver tips and advice learned through their extensive high-risk OB patient care experiences.
Prepare yourself today and ensure a brighter tomorrow for new parents and their babies.
Here’s what you can expect to get out of our all-inclusive training:
High-Risk Postpartum Patients: Conquer the Mother-Baby Warning Signs
**2.5 Pharmacology CE Hours**
**2.5 Pharmacology CE Hours**
Thursday, May 2 • 8:00 am – 4:00 pm PT
Donna Weeks, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, APN
Donna Weeks, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, APN
Prevent Complications for Laboring and Postpartum Morbidly Obese Patients
Decreasing Opioid Use Following Childbirth
Safe Treatment of Bipolar Disease During Pregnancy & Breastfeeding
Postpartum Depression: Early Identification & Intervention
- Maternal risks and postpartum complications
- Does obesity affect labor?
- Preventing post-op complications – can we prevent infection, sepsis, DVT and PEs?
- Nursing implications based on the type of bariatric surgery
Decreasing Opioid Use Following Childbirth
- The pharmacodynamics of opioids
- Managing post-op pain with minimal opioids
- Polypharmacy – why does it work?
Safe Treatment of Bipolar Disease During Pregnancy & Breastfeeding
- The difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II
- Medication efficacy and safety during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Postpartum Depression: Early Identification & Intervention
- What are the baby blues? How is it different from postpartum depression?
- Tools to evaluate risk for PPD
- Antidepressant medications – are they safe in pregnancy?
The Newborn Transition to Extrauterine Life
Congenital Cardiac Heart Disease
POST-BIRTH Warning Signs
Anticipating a Traumatic Birth
Looking to the Future
- Vaginal delivery v. Cesarean section – does it make a difference?
- TTN – early recognition
- An easy guide to interpreting cord gasses
- Neonatal resuscitation – how does epinephrine work?
Congenital Cardiac Heart Disease
- Screening for CCHD – how does it work
- Common and less common congenital heart diseases
- What is VACTERL?
POST-BIRTH Warning Signs
- What are the Post Birth Warning Signs?
- How does education about Post Birth Warning Signs save lives?
- Available resources for nurses and patients
Anticipating a Traumatic Birth
- Preparing for the various types of traumatic births
- How we can make a difference
Looking to the Future
- Telehealth in maternal child health
- Wearable devices
- Artificial Intelligence
OB Emergencies: Current Trends, Treatments & Issues
**3.0 Pharmacology CE Hours**
**3.0 Pharmacology CE Hours**
Friday, May 3 • 8:00 am – 4:00 pm PT
Jamie Otremba RN, CNM, MSN
Jamie Otremba RN, CNM, MSN
Preeclampsia Eclampsia and HELLP
Preterm Labor: Rapid Diagnosis and Intervention Can Make All the Difference
The Perils of Shoulder Dystocia
Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Tips for timely intervention: Know when you MUST intervene
- Why have we gotten so aggressive?
- Latest available medical treatments & nursing interventions
- Morbidly and mortality associated with diagnosis
Preterm Labor: Rapid Diagnosis and Intervention Can Make All the Difference
- Who is at the highest risk and strategies to lower the risk
- Preterm labor or just contractions? Make your diagnosis!
- Beta-mimetics, Mag, Calcium Channel Blockers, NSAIDS, progesterone, Antibiotics: Who gets what?
The Perils of Shoulder Dystocia
- Can we predict shoulder dystocia?
- The latest legal outcomes for patients with shoulder dystocia
- When a shoulder dystocia occurs: The essentials of management
Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Patients at risk for postpartum hemorrhage
- New tips for assessing blood loss accurately
- Most recent clinical practice guidelines
- New medications and old meds with new protocols
High-Risk Induction
VTE in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Catastrophic Events
- Trends in elective and medical inductions
- The newest options for inductions
- Risks and benefits for induction patients
- How to change your hospital policies
- Examples of informed consent
VTE in Pregnancy and Postpartum
- #1 cause of Maternal death in the US (...and why the ICU nurse is running from me)
- New recommendations for evaluation and prevention
- Treatment in pregnancy
- Timing delivery
Catastrophic Events
- AFE
- Cardiac and respiratory arrest
- Loss of fetal heart tones
- Recognition
- What really goes wrong - and how?
- Be prepared for aggressive resuscitation!
