2012 Controversies in Obstetric Doppler
Saturday April 14, 2012 - Sunday April 15, 2012
Hear from and quiz experts in the field on:
• Is Uterine artery screening for everyone?
• Uterine artery Doppler & maternal cardiovascular status
• 1st vs 2nd trimester uterine artery screening
• MCA Redistribution: brainsparing or brainharming?
• Ductus arteriosus: physiology, truth and myth
• Doppler safety ... the theory and the practice
• Timing delivery in IUGR-Doppler, CTG or both?
• An international consensus on ‘how to do’ Doppler: basic guidelines
Provisional Programme
Saturday Morning
Uterine artery Doppler: useful in high risk pregnancies?
Useful screening in everyone
Not useful as a screening test in anyone
The fetal brain and its metabolism in IUGR and brainsparing
Middle cerebral artery in IUGR
Redistribution in hypoxia spares the brain
Redistribution is pathological
Saturday Afternoon
The aorta:
Ductus arteriosus is the information clinically useful?
Aortic Isthmus
Ductus venosus: Physiology
IUGR, ductus venosus changes and shunting flow: the misunderstandings
Ductus venosus: is it the key vessel for assessing TTTS?
Clinical Practice-IUGR
Putting together venous & arterial Doppler parameters in clinical practice: evidence from the studies
Deliver IUGR babies early-so says Sweden!
We just don't know when to deliver these babies
Sunday Morning
Therapeutic ultrasound-HIFU
Doppler Standardisation
Doppler and safety:
Worrying about nothing-?
We should be concerned
The ISUOG guidelines
The ISUOG phantom
Angle correction for velocities-
Why angle correct? Doing the maths...
Why angle correct? The clinical aspect
Don't angle correct!
A proposed scheme for Doppler assessment
Why do we need a standardised schema?
A model for practice
