At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Discuss the benefits and risks of working with First Nations Communities when you are not First Nations yourself.
- Identify a variety of novel stillbirth prevention awareness resources that may be adapted and used in different settings across the world.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Discuss of how cardio-metabolic risk factors affect maternal health pre-conception, in pregnancy, and later in life.
- Describe the opportunity that pregnancy affords to foreshadow future health for mother and child.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate how well-characterized family-based studies may aid in identifying inherited genetic contributors to stillbirth.
- Share findings highlighting the first genome-wide significant evidence for inherited genetic factors in stillbirth.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Identify the conflicting emotions around the loss of a baby and
common feelings shared by bereaved parents.
- Identify common feelings of siblings alive at the time of loss.
- Explore themes found in adults/children who were the child that follows a loss.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Outline the spiritual impact of perinatal death for parents, families and healthcare professionals.
- Provide a broad scope of bereavement and attachment theories in perinatal bereavement as they are influenced by spirituality.
- Examine how spirituality/values can be a resource for parents/families and healthcare professionals in perinatal bereavement care from the pointy of diagnosis through to bereavement care.
- Facilitate a reflective opportunity for participants to access their own sense of spiritual resources.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Evaluate what assessments may offer a “better” fit for bereaved parents.
- Name a significant way depression varies from grief.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Capture the modifiable factors and identify the solutions as a response that can be implemented to prevent stillbirths.
- Describe how to conduct stillbirth audits in the community with limited information and plan a response.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Discuss the contribution of placental diseases to stillbirth
- Describe how the Placental Growth factor (PlGF) blood test may be used to more effectively diagnose placenta-mediated Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR)
- Identify the potential for the PlGF to screen for and prevent stillbirth
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Describe of the role of placental aging in stillbirth.
- Articulate what circRNAs are, what they do, and how they can serve as markers of tissue ageing.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Discuss the impact that a lack of formal residency education has on the care of Loss families.
- Describe the three components of a didactic model to guide Loss education for residents. Construct a similar model for Loss education based on the political and population environment of the local institution.
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Identify at least three physical, mental, and/or social determinants of health impacts of perinatal loss.
- Describe two mitigating factors to better support bereaved parents in the participant’s respective domain/setting (e.g., Domain: physical health, Setting: primary/Ob-Gyn care).
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
- Identify the advantages of using the placenta for in utero therapy.
- Discuss the benefits of improving placental structure and function.
- Describe how fetal sex impacts the mechanisms in the placenta
