2025 Placenta Accreta Spectrum Workshop

Needs Statement

There is a critical need to enhance the knowledge and confidence of healthcare providers, including OB, MFM providers, and other professionals, in managing Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorder (PASD). This gap has led to increased maternal morbidity and mortality during delivery. The proposed workshop will provide practical knowledge on identifying risk factors, utilizing appropriate imaging techniques, and implementing evidence-based management strategies. It will also address inconsistencies in multidisciplinary care planning and improve patient education on PASD. Given the shortage of specialty-trained providers and the lack of dedicated workshops in the greater Houston area, this initiative will offer essential training to ensure consistent and effective management of PASD in pregnant patients.

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:

• Describe specific maternal obstetric and medical conditions and appropriate treatment
• Apply appropriate imaging modalities (ultrasound and MRI) to accurately diagnose PAS prenatally.
• Explain physiologic changes that occur in placenta accreta spectrum disorder (PASD)
• Demonstrate optimum maternal management of placenta accreta spectrum disorder (PASD)

Target Audience

Competencies

• Employ Evidence-Based Practice
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Interprofessional Communication
• Medical Knowledge
• Patient Care and Procedural Skills
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
• Professionalism
• Provide Patient-Centered Care
• Roles/Responsibilities
• Systems-Based Practice
• Teams and Teamwork
• Work in Interdisciplinary Teams

Accreditation/Credit Designation

Physician

Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Baylor College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing

Texas Children’s Hospital is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) activity awards 13.0 contact hours

Disclosure Policy

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. BCM is committed to sponsoring CE activities that are scientifically based, accurate, current, and objectively presented.

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, BCM has implemented a mechanism requiring everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity (i.e., directors, planning committee members, faculty) to disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests (drug/device companies) and manage/resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. Individuals must disclose to participants the existence or non-existence of financial relationships at the time of the activity or within 24 months prior.

In addition, BCM has requested activity faculty/presenters to disclose to participants any unlabeled use or investigational use of pharmaceutical/device products; to use scientific or generic names (not trade names) in referring to products; and, if necessary to use a trade name, to use the names of similar products or those within a class. Faculty/presenters have also been requested to adhere to the ACCME's validation of clinical content statements.

BCM does not view the existence of financial relationships with commercial interests as implying bias or decreasing the value of a presentation. It is up to participants to determine whether the relationships influence the activity faculty with regard to exposition or conclusions. If at any time during this activity you feel that there has been commercial/promotional bias, notify the Activity Director or Activity Coordinator. Please answer the questions about balance and objectivity in the activity evaluation candidly.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.