Perinatal care

This short course will develop your skills and understanding of the prerequisites for the health of the neonate. This includes appropriate assessment and management of maternal health and initial care and stabilisation of the neonate. This will be illustrated using various maternal and neonatal conditions such as congenital infections, anomalies requiring surgery and prematurity. Emphasis will be placed on the multidisciplinary and teamworking approach of perinatology and upon ethical decision making within the field.

Topics covered will include:

• Maternal health and its impact on neonatal outcomes
• Fetal medicine for the paediatric/neonatal practitioner
• Resuscitation, stabilisation of the high risk and complex neonate
• Initial postnatal management of the high risk and complex neonate
• Ethical aspects and redirection of care
• Neonatal surgical conditions
• Global maternal and neonatal health

The course is part of a range of short courses spread throughout the academic year which are available both to students who are enrolled on the MSc Applied Paediatrics course and as stand-alone CPD accredited programmes for all healthcare professionals.