This is the on demand version of the live course in January 2022. It will provide a comprehensive overview of the most recent research developments and clinical aspects of how to manage the impact caused by preeclampsia as well as learning about different components of preeclampsia screening models, alternative monitoring options for preeclampsia and learn aspirin prevention of preeclampsia.
Overview
Course name: Hypertension in pregnancy: management
Duration of course: 6 hours
Length of access for each course: 3 months
Certificates: 6 CME credits and ISUOG Certificate of Completion
Access: On demand lectures, learn at your own pace.
Education level: Advanced
Program language: English
Suitable for: Practicing obstetricians and gynecologists, trainees, fellows, residents, midwives, nurses, radiographers, sonographers, GPs and healthcare professionals providing antenatal care and performing ultrasound scans.
Why do this course?
This course will bring you up to date with recent developments in the global health impacts, methods for prevention, adequate management in patients with long-term effects on women’s cardiovascular health, as well as monitoring, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum management of preeclampsia will be discussed, providing readily applicable clinically useful information to health care professionals who look after pregnant individuals.
Course description
This is the on demand version of the pre-congress course in January 2022. It contains the following lectures:
- Importance of maternal and fetal health for NCD prevention - Moshe Hod (Israel)
- Definitions of hypertensive disorders - Laura Magee (UK)
- Measurement of blood pressure - Andrew Shennan (UK)
- Tight blood pressure management - Laura Magee (UK)
- Hemodynamics-guided blood pressure management - Nick Kametas (UK)
- Critical care - Andrew Shennan (UK)
- Timing of delivery - Gerry Visser (Netherlands)
- Postnatal care - Eyal Sheiner (Israel)
- Cardiovascular health - Nick Kametas (UK)
- Long term health implications - Moshe Hod (Israel)
- Considerations in LMICs - Peter von Dadelzsen (UK), Raigam Martinez-Portilla (Mexico)
- Fetal growth restriction and monitoring of fetal growth - Francesc Figueras (Spain)
- Placental abruption and stillbirth - Sailesh Kumar (Australia)
- HELLP/AFLP - Peter von Dadelzsen (UK)
Learning objectives
- To define hypertension in pregnancy
- To know how to measure the blood pressure correctly
- To understand, describe and diferentiate the various hemodynamic patterns of hypertension
- Outline the management strategies for hypertension in pregnancy and discuss the critical care measures for severe hypertension or preeclampsia
- Explain the mechanisms by which hypertension can lead to potential adverse outcomes for both the mother and the fetus
- To understand how to provide postnatal care to patients with hypertension in pregnancy along with long term health implications
Prices
Prices for ISUOG members
| ISUOG member | £70 |
| ISUOG member - with trainee/sonographer discount  | £35 |
| ISUOG member in middle-income setting | £35 |
| ISUOG member in lower-resource setting | £10 |
Prices for ISUOG non-members*
| Non-member | £80 |
| Non-member - with trainee/sonographer discount  | £40 |
| Non-member in middle-income setting | £40 |
| Non-member in lower-resource setting | £15 |
* Prices for non-members does NOT include ISUOG membership. Join as an ISUOG member first for discounted prices to our online training courses (allow 24 hours for systems to update).
Trainees/residents and sonographers/radiographers
Proof of status: All trainees, residents, sonographers and radiographers will need to submit proof of their trainee, resident, sonographer or radiographer status by way of a letter from their Department or Institution. The letter must be in English and dated within the last 3 months and submitted by email to [email protected] along with the name of the course you wish to purchase.
Sonographer definition: A sonographer is a non-physician medical imaging professional who performs diagnostic medical sonography, or diagnostic ultrasound.
Trainee/resident definition: A trainee is a medical professional who is not yet fully qualified or practicing without supervision within their chosen specialty and in accordance with the relevant national regulatory authorities; a resident is in residency training which leads to specially or subspecialty) certification.
Low resource country discount
ISUOG's mission is to disseminate the highest quality education to the broadest audience. To support this aim, we have ensured that attendees from low resource countries have the lowest purchase costs. ISUOG's low resource country list can be viewed here https://www.research4life.org/access/eligibility/.
No other discounts can be used in conjunction with this rate. These rates will appear automatically in the ISUOG Academy based on your membership details, or registered details. Please make sure these details are up to date.
Middle income country discount
ISUOG's mission is to disseminate the highest quality education to the broadest audience. To support this aim, we have ensured that attendees from middle income countries have access to reduced purchase costs. ISUOG has identified the following countries whose economies fall within the middle income category as defined by the World Bank: American Samoa, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic , India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan.
No other discounts can be used in conjunction with this rate. These rates will appear automatically in the ISUOG Academy based on your membership details, or registered details. Please make sure these details are up to date.
Further information
Accreditation and CME Credits
CME credits
The European Accreditation Council (EACCME) accredits this online course for Continuing Medical Education (CME). European CME credits (ECMEC®) will be awarded on successful completion of this course. Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA), physicians may convert EACCME credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme.
CME Subcommittee
The CME Subcommittee oversees the CME requirements for our CME accredited courses.
Conflict of Interest
No commercial support has been accepted related to the development or publication of this course. This course underwent peer review in line with the standards of editorial integrity and publication ethics maintained by the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (ISUOG). Conflicts of interest have been identified and resolved in accordance with EACCME guidelines.
You can find out how we adhere to the essential criteria for EACCME accreditation requirements here.
Technical Requirements
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- MS Edge
- Mozilla Firefox version 60 Extended Support Release (ESR)
- Google Chrome 73
- Safari 10 auf OS X
- Mobile Browser Android >4 and iOS > 9
- Current versions of Adobe Reader plugin
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