Critical Care in Obstetrics Online Course 2024: Comprehensive Bundle

🩺 Critical Care in Obstetrics Online Course 2024

Comprehensive Bundle (SMFM)

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📌 Overview

The Critical Care in Obstetrics Online Course 2024: Comprehensive Bundle by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine is a educational course on obstetric critical care designed to help clinicians manage critically ill pregnant patients.

This course focuses on pregnancy-specific physiology, ICU-level emergencies, and multidisciplinary care, combining video lectures + downloadable PDF slides for each module.

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🎯 Target Audience

• OB/GYN physicians
• Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialists
• Critical care physicians
• Residents & fellows
• Nurses and advanced practice providers

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📦 Course Format

• 🎥 Videos + PDF slides for every module
• 📚 23 comprehensive modules
• 🧠 Case-based, practical learning
• This downloadable product does not include SMFM platform enrollment, interactive assessments, or separate topic purchases.

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🧠 Core Learning Areas

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❤️ Cardiovascular Emergencies in Pregnancy

• Acquired cardiac disease
• Congenital heart disease
• Myocardial infarction in pregnancy
• Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Maternal cardiac arrest

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🫁 Respiratory & Advanced Life Support

• Respiratory failure in pregnancy
• Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

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🧠 Neurologic & Toxicologic Emergencies

• Acute neurological diseases
• Drug overdose in pregnancy
• Trauma management

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🩸 Obstetric Critical Emergencies

• Amniotic fluid embolism
• Postpartum hemorrhage & massive transfusion
• Placenta accreta spectrum
• Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)

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⚠️ Hypertensive & Endocrine Crises

• Preeclampsia & eclampsia
• Hypertensive emergencies
• Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
• Thyroid storm

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🦠 Infection & Thromboembolism

• Sepsis in pregnancy
• Obstetric thromboembolism

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🧬 Physiology & Systems-Based Care

• Blood pressure physiology
• Coagulation cascade
• Teamwork and communication in emergencies

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📚 Full Module List (23 Topics)

• Acquired Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy
• Acute Neurological Diseases in Pregnancy
• Amniotic Fluid Embolism
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Collaborative Teams & Communication
• ECMO in Pregnancy
• Endocrine Emergencies: DKA
• Endocrine Emergencies: Thyroid Storm
• Hypertensive Disorders (Preeclampsia/Eclampsia)
• Hypertensive Emergencies
• Maternal Cardiac Arrest
• Myocardial Infarction in Pregnancy
• Obstetric Thromboembolism
• Overdose in Pregnancy
• Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
• Placenta Accreta Spectrum
• Postpartum Hemorrhage
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Respiratory Failure
• Sepsis in Pregnancy
• Trauma in Pregnancy
• DIC & Coagulation Cascade
• Blood Pressure Physiology

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🎓 Learning Objectives

The following are educational study goals, not guarantees of competence or clinical outcomes:

• Manage life-threatening obstetric emergencies
• Apply pregnancy-specific physiology in ICU care
• Improve outcomes in high-risk pregnancies
• Implement team-based emergency response strategies
• Recognize and treat multisystem critical illness in pregnancy

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⭐ Why This Course Stands Out

• ✔️ Designed by SMFM experts
• ✔️ Covers real ICU scenarios in obstetrics
• ✔️ Combines theory + case-based practice
• ✔️ Includes videos + downloadable slides
• ✔️ Self-paced study of the supplied files; provider account access is not included

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🚀 Clinical Value

This resource supports study of high-risk pregnancies. The goals below are not evidence that purchasing or viewing these files improves outcomes:

• Act rapidly in maternal emergencies
• Reduce maternal morbidity and mortality
• Improve multidisciplinary coordination
• Apply critical care principles in obstetrics