World Congress of Perinatal Medicine 2009 webcast: Presentations

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Keynote Lectures

Roberto Romero: Can we predict or prevent preterm birth?

Erich Saling: Efficient measures to prevent premature birth at high risk

Øjvind Lidegaard: Effects of IVF on imprinted disorders

Victor Yu: The ethical dilemma of withholding or withdrawal of neonatal intensive care

Robert Brent: The etiology and prevention of congenital malformation—will we ever prevent this group of diseases?

Symposium 1: Pre-eclampsia

Daniel V. Surbek: Can we now predict pre-eclampsia?

Andrea L. Tranquilli: Outpatient management of pre-eclampsia: how long?

Hung N. Winn: Maternal and perinatal outcome

Symposium 3: Ultrasound in prenatal care

Gianni Monni: Multifetal embryo reduction in more than 3 fetuses

Ilan E. Timor-Tritsch: Fetal neuroscan: ultrasound or MRI?

Radu Vladareanu: The fetal face—3D/4D ultrasonography

Symposium 10: Surfactant

Virgilio Carnielli: Should we individualize surfactant treatment?

Mikko Hallman: Expanded Role of the Surfactant System in Perinatal transition

Rangasamy Ramanathan: Surfactant Therapy for respiratory distress Syndrome

Marta Szymankiewicz: Pulmonary functions in newborns with meconium aspiration syndrome

Panel Discussion 1 : Making maternal mortality a priority

Aris Antsaklis: Maternal and perinatal mortality in Europe

Corazon Yabes Almirante: Reduction of maternal mortality in a developing country

Sabaratnam Arulkumaran: Maternal mortality and millennium development goals

José M. Carrera: Maternal mortality in Africa: the need for a change of model

Helmut Kaulhausen: Strategies to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries

Mario Merialdi: Maternal health: the role of the WHO

Parallel Session 2: C-Section use and abuse—a transatlantic evaluation

Markus Gonser: Is cesarean section the best mode of delivery below 32 weeks gestation?

Stephan Schmidt: Reduction of C-Section rates through biochemical parameters of the fetus

Dalia Schwake: Reverse breech extraction in cases of impacted fetal head during second stage cesarean section

Dan Skupski: Delivery mode for the extremely premature fetus

Michael Stark:The evidence-based cesarean section—20 years experience with the Misgav Ladach method

Tom Weber: C-Section use and abuse—in developed and developing countries

Parallel Session 12: C-Section use and abuse—a transatlantic evaluation

Karl Bergmann: BMI and weight gain in pregnancy: epidemiology and impact

Per Bergsjo: Ambiguous definitions in perinatology

Irene Hösli: Caesarean section—torn between imagination and reality

Anthony M. Vintzileos: Evidence-based versus reality-based methods in assessing perinatal outcome

Panel Discussion 4: HIV—how well are we doing?

Renaud Becquet: Universal antiretroviral therapy for pregnant and breastfeeding HIV-infected women

Oriol Coll: HIV and perinatal complications

Gundel Harms-Zwingenberger: Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in Eastern Africa

Jennifer S. Read: Mode of delivery and mother-to-child transmission of HIV: unanswered questions

Parallel Session 19: Operative delivery: forceps and vacuum—are they obsolete?

Amos Grunebaum: A 3-year program to improve patient safety on labor and delivery

Pertti Kirkinen: How to minimize maternal morbidity associated with vacuum exctraction?

Klaus Vetter: The future of operative vaginal delivery

Panel Discussion 6 : Late Breaking News

Donald Coustan: HAPO Studies

Henry L. Halliday & Gerard H. A. Visser: The optional gestational age for elective C-Section in low-risk or high-risk pregnancy

Parallel Session 30: PPH

Wayne Roy Cohen: Hemorrhagic shock: clinical pathophysiology

Gary Dildy: Use of fluids and blood products

Wolfgang Henrich: Conservative management of placenta accreta

Jose M. Palacios Jaraquemada: Conservative in accreta: one-step conservative surgery

Zoltán Papp: Hypogastric artery ligation for intractable pelvic hemorrhage

Steve Robson: Diagnosis and management of morbidly adherent placenta

Philip Steer: Uterine compression suture techniques and nontraditional surgical techniques

Daniel V. Surbek: Use of rVIIa, other new agents and red cell salvage

Workshop 1: Anomaly scan from head to toe (without cardiac)

Yaron Zalel: Introduction

Ilan E. Timor-Tritsch: Abnormality at 18 Wks

Yaron Zalel: Same Abnormality at Nuchal Scan

Ilan E. Timor-Tritsch: Introduction to Posterior Fossa

Yaron Zalel: Anomalies of the Posterior Fossa

Ilan E. Timor-Tritsch: Chromosomal Abnormality

Yaron Zalel: Chromosomal Abnormality

Ilan E. Timor-Tritsch: Greig-Cephalopolysyndactyly-Syndrome

Yaron Zalel: Skeletal Dysplasia

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