Saving Mothers: Insights and Interventions in Reducing Maternal Mortality

Saving Mothers: Insights and Interventions in Reducing Maternal Mortality is tailor-made to help clinicians keep pregnant patients as safe as possible during a medically complex time in their lives. Perfect for OB/GYN and emergency medicine physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives, this book, this book provides 15 hours of pregnancy-specific CME/CE credits.

Maternal Mortality topics include:

1. The Maternal Mortality Crisis and Disparities in Care: Review common and structural causes that affect maternal mortality and identify ways to prevent it.
2. Risk Factors and Prevention: Prevent life-affecting threats to pregnant patients, including sepsis, gestational diabetes mellitus, and stroke.
3. Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: Identify and manage common hypertensive disorders affecting pregnant patients.
4. Teen Pregnancies in the ED: Review, prevent, and manage emergent conditions that affect pregnant teens.
5. Abortion Access and Care: Identify ways to help pregnant patients navigate the increasingly complex reproductive health ecosystem.
6. The Fourth Trimester: Emergencies in the Postpartum Period: Review and manage common postpartum conditions pregnant patients face.

Features:

1. Provides latest evidence on how to best treat children who have experienced a traumatic event
2. Includes valuable tables, figures, charts, photographs, and images to support the information
3. Easy format for physicians and nurses to earn pediatric trauma-specific continuing education credits
4. Provides clinically relevant information on pediatric trauma injuries, challenges, and controversies

Expiration: Jan. 1, 2028

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Faculty:

Physician Editor:
Rebecca H, Allen, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, RI

Peer Reviewers:
Katherine Baranowski, MD, FAAP, FACEP
Chief, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark

Catherine A. Marco, MD, FACEP
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Health, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

Frank Petito, MD
Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York

Michael Roche, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Larissa I. Velez, MD
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Michael P. Wainscott Professorship in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Steven M. Winograd, MD, FACEP
Attending Emergency Physician, Trinity Health Care, Samaritan, Troy, NY

Nurse Planners:
Kay Ball, RN, PhD, CNOR, FAAN
Professor of Nursing, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH

Laura Bauer, RN, BSN, CPEN
Pediatric Emergency Dept RN, Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ

Toni G. Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN
Partner and Consultant, Case Management Concepts, LLC, North Bellmore, NY

Andrea Light, MS, BSN, RN, EMT, TCRN, CEN
Trauma Program Manager, Mt. Carmel East. Columbus, OH

Suzanne Morgan, RN, BSN, CCM
High Risk OB

Learning Objectives:

The objectives of Saving Mothers are to:

• Identify socioeconomic and racial disparities that lead to higher rates of maternal mortality.
  
• Describe risk factors for maternal mortality and methods of preventing and treating them.
• Recognize and treat hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
• Explain the unique features that affect the diagnosis and management of pregnancy in adolescence.
• Discuss the medical and legal issues regarding abortion access and care.

Target Audience:

This activity is intended for OB/GYN physicians, OB/GYN nurses, emergency medicine providers, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 15AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

15 ANCC contact hours will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion.

Instructions for Participation:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CNE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 80 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their certificate.

ISBN: 978-1-941481-76-9