Description

Overview

This CME-accredited session will explore clinical pathways for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), from prenatal imaging and diagnosis to fetal intervention, delivery, and perinatal care.

Prenatal diagnoses of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) introduce a range of complex challenges surrounding prognosis and perinatal management. As providers, our role is to guide families through decision-making and connect them with specialized care. Join experts from the Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) Center and Fetal Care and Surgery Center for this CME-accredited  event that will explore the care trajectory for CDH — from prenatal imaging and diagnosis to fetal intervention, delivery, and long-term support.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

• Learn more about given topic/condition – the symptoms, causes, and diagnoses
• Learn how Boston Children’s experts are treating these rare and complex conditions
• Learn about how our research informs our clinical care in real-time, sharing knowledge with the community to advance fetal care together
• Generate and foster relationships with specialists regionally, nationally, and internationally

Topics include:

• Prenatal diagnosis of CDH and prognosis
• FETO
• Boston Children’s model of interdisciplinary collaboration with referring providers and CDH team
• Specialized coordination of care including ECMO 
• Long term follow up
• Navigating second opinions

Registration

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

 

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

 

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of  1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 1.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Work
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston Children’s Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Boston Children’s Hospital maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 ACE CE continuing education credits.

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: 

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.