Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Describe the roles of the members of the health care team in their respective responsibilities for quality care.
2. Describe both the obstetrics and non-obstetric etiologies of thrombocytopenia in pregnancy.
3. Define the work-up from thrombocytopenia in pregnancy.
4. Develop the appropriate obstetric management for the most common causes of thrombocytopenia in pregnancy.
5. Understand the differential diagnosis of neonatal thrombocytopenia.
6. Understand the proper management for various presentations of neonatal thrombocytopenia.
7. Discuss a resent patient presentation of a preterm infant found to have thrombocytopenia shortly after birth.
 

Faculty

Tara Formisano, DO
Ob/Gyn Resident
Baystate Medical Center

Mitchel Milstein, MD
Pediatric Resident
Baystate Medical Center

Jeffrey Walbridge, DO
Pediatric Resident
Baystate Medical Center

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 other 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