Activity ID
2599Expires
August 2, 2025Format Type
InternetCME Credit
1.25Fee
$75CME Provider: Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO)
Description of CME Course
The obstetric malpractice claim of “a delay in treatment of fetal distress” remains the number one factor In over 20% of claims from multiple PIAA resources. The key to avoiding delaying treatment to a fetus in distress is to recognize the critical nature of the fetal events and proceed with prompt notification to perinatal team members to provide much needed care. Fetal monitoring data provides a picture of a fetus’s clinical stability or instability with an indirect measurement of intrauterine oxygen levels and pH balance. Various FHR patterns show a fetus with adequate oxygen levels (stable), ones with decreasing oxygen levels (stressed), and some who do not have enough oxygen (distressed/unstable). If a practitioner fails to recognize and/or notify others about the clinical instability of the fetus and there is a poor outcome, patient safethy is at risk.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Family Medicine
Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
A. Evaluate a EFM medical malpractice case for merit and complete critical thinking drills.
B. List three FHR and/or UC pattern characteristic that define when a clinical event is critical.
C. Analyze examples to help define your use of a call-to-action during notification of a critical event as routine, urgen, or emergent.
Keywords
EFM, electronic fetal monitoring, labor and birth, notification
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Medical Knowledge, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning & Improvement, Professionalism, Systems-based Practice
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Inpatient, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
