The event to be held from June 1 to 5 places the Dominican Republic in an important place in the scientific and academic field
More than 200 professors and researchers from universities and national and international institutions, who pay the greatest attention to the care of the mother and the newborn, will share their knowledge at the X World Congress of Perinatal Medicine to be held from 1 to 5 next month of June 2022 at the Punta Cana Convention Center.
“We expect the presence of a significant number of obstetricians and pediatricians from our country together with others who will visit us,” said Dr. Francisco Thevenin, president of the Dominican Society of Perinatal Medicine, and who also chairs the organizing committee of the congress.
The experts will talk regarding the methods of prevention and diagnosis of diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and thyroid disorders and a guide will be made known that its usefulness will be announced in Germany and Mexico.
Broad topics such as prematurity, its prevention and management, use of steroids, obstetric hemorrhage, pre and postnatal nutrition, intrauterine surgeries, twin pregnancy, strategies to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, delivery care, cancer and pregnancy, factors of infertility, teenage pregnancy, perinatal psychology, coping with grief in the face of loss, and managing children with special conditions.
The event will be the appropriate scenario to define criteria in search of being able to reduce the 60 percent of cesarean sections that occur in our country and avoid neonatal deaths due to prematurity, neonatal asphyxia and its complications and where 78% of infant deaths occur.
The subject of prenatal diagnosis will feature the greatest experts in this area, such as researchers Dr. Kypros Nicolaide, director of the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF), and Dr. Frank Chervenak, Roberto Romero, among others.
At the event, courses will be taught hand in hand with the World School of Perinatology, the Ian Donald school of prenatal evaluation, of the Dominican Society of Perinatal Medicine and a workshop for nurses, who are the first line of care for mothers and newborns. born.
