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Congress Webcast

Welcome to the 3rd International Preterm Labour Congress 2006 webcast. Below you will find selected slide presentations with video introductions.  Simply click on a title to begin!

Welcome to our Online Presentation

Hello, my name is Ronnie Lamont and I'm speaking with you from Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva where we've just had the 3rd International Preterm Labour Congress we've had something like 460 delegates from 36 different countries and we've enjoyed 3 days of discussing various problems associated with preterm labour and preterm birth to try to reduce the mortality and morbidity associated with it.

We hope you enjoy the selected presentations we've put up for you and we also hope that you'll register with us so that we can keep you abreast of other meetings which will be coming along and keep you up to date with the literature in preterm labour and perhaps we'll see you in Montreux in two years time.

• The cost of prematurity – the low cost vs high value of tocolysis
  Professor William Gilbert (bio and transcript)
• Use of tocolytics – what is the benefit of gaining 48 hours for the fetus?
  Professor Gian Carlo Di Renzo (bio and transcript)
• Use of tocolysis - what benefit of gaining more time?
  Professor Yves Jacquemyn (bio and transcript)
• The quality of nifedipine studies used to assess tocolytic efficacy: a systematic review
  Dr Ronnie F Lamont (bio and transcript)
• How to evaluate tocolytic trials in terms of short- and long-term endpoints
  Professor T Murphy Goodwin (bio and transcript)
• Clinical Practice Evaluation of atosiban in preterm labour management in six European countries
  Professor Peter Husslein (bio and transcript)
• How to assess the quality of evidence from tocolytic studies
  Professor James G Thornton (bio and transcript)
• Ongoing challenges in treating preterm labour: PPROM
  Professor Hanns Helmer (bio and transcript)
• Ongoing challenges in treating preterm labour: Maintenance
  Professor Ahm Kim (bio and transcript)
• Ongoing challenges in treating preterm labour: Normal Pregnancy with Pre-Term Labour with Adverse Effects
  Professor Joachim Dudenhausen (bio and transcript)
• The Concept of Prenatal Care
  Roberto Romero, MD and Dr Ronnie F Lamont
• Congress Highlights & Summary
  Professor Peter Husslein and Professor Gian Carlo Di Renzo

Publication of Meeting Proceedings
Proceedings from this Congress will be published in the October 2006 supplement of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG). 

The meeting proceedings from the 2nd Preterm Labour congress were published in the March 2005 supplement of BJOG and the meeting proceedings for the 1st Preterm Labour Congress were published in the April 2003 supplement.  Subscription is required to view the full article text.

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