Birth Congress 2024: Clinical Challenges in Labor and Delivery - 8th Edition is a conference dedicated to the challenges facing clinicians in Labor and Delivery Units worldwide, with a focus on clinical obstetrics.
Birth Congress 2024: Clinical Challenges in Labor and Delivery - 8th Edition covers topics such as:
- How to diagnose failure to progress in labor in the first stage?
- A daily question in obstetrics: Is this patient in labor? (term and preterm)
- Interpreting fetal heartrate tracing: a physiologic approach
- Augmentation of labor (amniotomy, oxytocin, and others)
- Intrapartum sonography to monitor the second stage (descent, flexion, rotation and more)
- How long should the second stage be allowed to last? (epidural vs. non-epidural, nulliparous vs. parous)
- Pelvic floor injury during a vaginal delivery/optimal repair of a third/fourth degree laceration
- Assisting the second stage: vacuum, forceps, Odon device
- The most common infection in labor and delivery: clinical chorioamnionitis
- PH, acid base and lactic acid of the umbilical cord blood
- Methods for induction of labor (mechanical, pharmacologic and combination)
- Should labor be routinely induced at term?
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Cesarean delivery: surgical technique and long term outcome
- Placenta accreta spectrum disorders: diagnosis and management
- Post-partum hemorrhage: prevention and treatment
- Catastrophic complications in labor
- Simulation and artificial intelligence on the labor and delivery floor
- COVID-19 in labor and delivery
Previous editions of Birth Congress have been successfully held in Rome, Chicago, Fortaleza (Brazil), Beijing, and Venice.
Birth Congress 2024: Clinical Challenges in Labor and Delivery - 8th Edition might be held in 2024.