Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Discuss emerging novel approaches to PDA management in extreme preterm infants.
2. Present the procedural details and available evidence of tanscatheter closure of the PDA with the "Piccolo" device.
3. Understand the physiology of "abrupt close of the PDA: Ligation vs. Transcatheter.
4. Offer a potential roadmap moving forward with a dedicated multi-disciplinary team-based approach PDA management.

Faculty

Philip T. Levy, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
 

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.    

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.