Obstetric sepsis is now the number 3 cause of maternal mortality and severe morbidity. But it presents significant challenges for recognition, diagnosis, timely treatment, and patient support. This presentation will describe new approaches for screening and rapid escalation of care to prevent end-organ injury. We will also highlight new patient-centered tools for education, advocacy, and support for all types of severe maternal events. The presentation will preview the 2024 revision of the CMQCC QI Toolkit: Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment of Maternal Sepsis.
Presentation topics include:
- Identify the reasons that obstetric sepsis is different that sepsis in other populations
- Understand the rationale for a two-step approach to screening and diagnosis of obstetric sepsis
- Understand how improving care for sepsis can be a model for addressing multiple causes of Severe Maternal Morbidity
Register via GoToWebinar.
Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024: 10:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. (PT)
Dr. Elliott Main founded and directed the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative for 16 years to 2023 and served as the Chair of the California Maternal Mortality Review Committee during those years. Nationally, Dr. Main was the co-founder and currently the lead for QI Implementation for AIM, the national project, funded thru HRSA and based at ACOG, for supporting state Perinatal Quality Collaboratives in their efforts to reduce maternal mortality and severe morbidity. He has coauthored multiple CMQCC Toolkits and AIM National Safety Bundles including recent one on Obstetric Sepsis. Currently Dr Main is co-principal investigator with Dr Melissa Bauer of a NIH Sponsored two-state quality improvement collaborative to reduce maternal sepsis. Dr. Main is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University in the Dunlevie Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine.
Christa Sakowski MSN, RN, C-ONQS, C-EFM, CLE joined the CMQCC team in 2017. She brings with her experience as a perinatal nurse, nursing faculty, certified nurse-midwife, and nurse education specialist. In her role as Clinical Lead, she works directly with hospital teams, mentor nurses, mentor physicians, research partners, and the entire CMQCC staff to assess and improve care delivery in the state of California. She has served as a task force co-lead and co-author of CMQCC Toolkits. Christa also engages with the rest of the country by working with state Perinatal Quality Collaboratives nationally and as the California nurse representative for the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM). She completed her BSN at The College of New Jersey in Ewing and her MSN at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
HQI is an approved continuing education (CE) provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing and will provide CHPSO members an opportunity to earn CEs. Provider Number CEP16793 for 1 contact hour.
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