Predict to Prevent: Ultrasound Practical Day

£140 for a full day of training, including lunch, tea, and coffee for both days.

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Ensuring effective assessment and care of at-risk pregnancies

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Course outline

Aims

To provide hands-on ultrasound instruction and training relevant to the care of women at risk of preterm birth, growth restriction, and stillbirth

 Objectives

• To provide a theoretical basis for the use of ultrasound in the prediction and prevention of adverse outcomes associated with preterm birth, growth restriction, and stillbirth
• To demonstrate and instruct in ultrasound skills relevant to these conditions, in particular:
  • Uterine, umbilical, and fetal Dopplers
  • Transvaginal scan assessment of the cervical and internal os
• To guide appropriate application and interpretation of these skills and findings within the clinical setting

Content

• Normal ultrasound appearances, measurements and reports
• Identifying the SGA/FGR fetus using ultrasound
• Implications of asymmetrical / symmetrical FGR
• Customised and population-based growth charts
• Placental, amniotic fluid, and Doppler parameters
• Transvaginal scan assessment of the cervix and internal os
• Appropriate interventions