VI Interdisciplinary Conference on Obstetrics, Perinatology and Neonatology “Healthy Woman – Healthy Newborn” 6-7 October 2011
On 6-7 October VI Interdisciplinary Conference on Obstetrics, Perinatology and Neonatology “Healthy Woman – Healthy Newborn” was held in Almazov Federal Centre. Traditionally, the conference brought together a wide range of specialists from other cities as well as foreign colleagues coming from Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Israel, Netherlands, Ukraine and Great Britain came to take part in the conference. The event gathered more than 400 people.
The conference was structured around 2 plenary sessions, 15 oral sessions, a satellite symposium on prevention of bone exchange disorder in different age periods, and a workshop with interactive session on pregnancy planning and management of patients with hyperandrogenemia.
The plenary session held on the first day was chaired by Professor A. Konradi, scientific vise-director of Almazov Federal Centre, Professor D. Ivanov, director of the Institute of perinatology and pediatrics in Almazov Federal Centre, Professor M. Shuvalova, head of social research in the National Institution for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of Russia (Moscow), Professor M. Carrapato, Head of Pediatric and Neonatal Department of Sebastião Hospital Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal).
Taking the floor, Professor A. Konradi first of all welcomed the participants and then emphasized the significance of the conference to Perinatal Centre. For almost 1 year since Perinatal Centre establishment more than 2000 deliveries were taken, taking into account that 1948 were the patients with burdened obstetric and gynecological anamnesis and extragenital pathology that is the target patients of the specialized perinatal centre. Within the year 2153 children were given birth, including 72 operated in the first days of life due to congenital developmental defects.
A. Konradi accented that apart from the previous conferences this one will give the chance the conferees not only to attend the sessions and exchange valuable experience, but also to get to know with the advanced equipment of Perinatal Centre as well as with simulation centre founded on its basis.
As before Perinatal Centre pursues 3 main aims – specialized and high-tech medical care delivery to pregnant women and children, scientific research and education. 5 monographies were written, 3 conferences were carried out and 26 articles were written in the foreign journals since Perinatal Centre establishment. Foundation of the fully equipped simulation centre has played a key role in the Centre life. At present only 4 institutions in the country have such centres: in Saint-Petersburg (Perinatal Centre in Almazov Federal Centre), Tomsk, Chelyabinsk and Ivanovo. Currently 25 simulators (maternity patients and newborns) are at the Centre disposal as well as advanced information base that let create realistic cases, master manual skills and management in obstetrics, reanimation care delivery to the newborns and choose the right approach in emergency cases.
Next Professor M. Barbaro, Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Surgery in Karolinska University Hospital (Sweden) covered an issue of congenital abnormality in genital sphere in children of different age.
In conclusion of the plenary session Professor M. Carrapato, Head of Pediatric and Neonatal Department in São Sebastião Hospital, Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal) touched on perinatal problems and its outcomes. He emphasized that the pediatrics must start long before the child delivery, precisely before impregnation. That only such approach makes possible to prevent congenital abnormalities in infants and avoid complications. Professor M. Carrapato pointed out that in Portugal doctors watch for risk group children carefully and carry out researches in half year, year, three, five and eight years.
Upon completion of the plenary session the participants had a lively discussion followed by an excursion to the simulation centre.
The second conference day started with the plenary session was chaired by Professor G. Visser (Netherlands), Professor N. Arbarskaya (Moscow) and Professor E. Baranova (Saint-Petersburg).
The first two lecturers addressed the issues of diabetes mellitus and pregnancy. Professor G. Visser, Head of the Obstetric Department in University Medical Centre (Utrecht, Netherlands) acquainted colleagues with recent researches in diseases in children born to diabetic mothers.
The session continued with Professor N. Arbatskaya, endocrinologist of Pirogov Hospital (Moscow) presenting the lecture on pregnancy planning in women with type I diabetes mellitus. Professor N. Arbatskaya acquainted colleagues with the most effective methods of diabetes compensation, precisely with the use of insulin pump instead of constant insulin injections.
Next Professor Boubou Hallberg, Head of the Section for Neonatology, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge (Sweden) gave a lecture on reanimation of newborns.
Professor E. Baranova spoke about influence of cardiac pathology on pregnancy.
It is worth mentioning that the lecture of Professor M. Carrapato on offspring of gestosis attracted profound interest among the audience.
At the same time in five halls of the Centre parallel sessions were organized regarding prenatal diagnosis, congenital and acquired pathology of thoracic and abdominal cavity, locomotor pathology in newborns and infants, assessment of additional risk factors for thromboembolism and its prevention in obstetrics and gynecology.
The Organizing committee gave special consideration to “Medicine and Religion” session which in its turn aroused keen interest among the conferees.
To sum up, the conference joined the specialists of different countries, made possible to effectively exchange experience, gain new knowledge and foster further research in obstetrics, perinatology and neonatology as health of our children is our future!
