This educational activity consists of recorded presentations from Women’s & Infants’ Health Symposium: Medical Management Today for Healthy Living Tomorrow held in Chicago, Illinois on May 12-13, 2011.
Thousands of babies are born each year with cardiovascular defects. CHD is the most common fatal congenital anomaly in the first year after birth, and early diagnosis of CHD is needed to ensure these babies receive prompt intervention to maximize outcomes and limit morbidities. Fetal echocardiography has become accepted as a method of diagnosing CHD in utero. This presentation will discuss methods to identify mothers that should receive in utero screening diagnosis for CHD and will evaluate the benefits of prenatal diagnosis.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to

1. Discuss methods to identify mothers that should receive fetal echocardiography to screen for congenital heart disease
2. Evaluate the benefits of prenatal diagnosis of CHD compared with patients for whom in utero screening was not performed

Faculty
Gil Wernovsky, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine;
Medical Director, Neurocardiac Care Program
Associate Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Director of Program Development and Staff Cardiac Intensivist, The Cardiac Center
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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