Enduring CME Course: Hypertension in Pregnancy #01: Maternal Mortality and HTN

Activity ID

7914

Expires

June 30, 2024

Format Type

Enduring

CME Credit

0.25

Fee

$40

CME Provider: Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO)

Description of CME Course

The US is the only industrialized nation with a rising rate of both maternal mortality and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. The root cause is complex but a lack of readiness, recognition, and response to various hypertensive disorders increases the likelihood of harm from maternal severe hypertension/preeclampsia; this opens the door to malpractice risk exposure. Age, race, preexisting conditions and other health disparities or inequities also negatively impact these adverse outcomes. Due to the severity of this problem, the US Surgeon General implemented a call to action to: 1) reduce the maternal mortality rate by 50%, and 2) achieve blood pressure control in 80% of women with hypertension who are of reproductive age. To meet both objectives by 2025, all stakeholders must get involved. Implementing The Joint Commission perinatal safety standards into your clinical practice and your facility’s obstetric hypertension plan is recommended to reduce harm from severe hypertension/preeclampsia nationwide. This is the first of 17 modules within our hypertension in pregnancy series that focuses on the incidence and causes of maternal mortality, with a special focus on hypertension during pregnancy. Risk mitigation strategies to limit health disparities and implicit biases are highlighted so that obstetric hypertension-related malpractice claims may lesson and maternal outcomes improve

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General Information on CME Activity

Educational Objectives

Outline the trends in US pregnancy-related mortality and the impact of hypertension on pregnancy outcomes. b. List three factors, health disparities, or inequities that may impact pregnancy-related death rates.

Keywords

Hypertension in Pregnancy, OB Mortality, OB Safety

Competencies

Medical Knowledge, Professionalism, Systems-based Practice

CME Credit Type

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit