Credits Hours: 2.00

Course Description:
This module discusses clinical issues of intrapartum monitoring in a risk management context, providing rules of thumb for dealing with common risk management issues, cases for learners to apply the rules of thumb, and current issues that are becoming major risk management concerns.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this online activity, the participant should be able to:

• Recognize how the failure to identify nonreassuring FHR patterns and manage them appropriately increases the risk of liability.
• Identify rules of thumb you can implement every day to reduce your medicolegal risk.
• Define the standard of care for the maximum time interval between the decision to conduct an emergency cesarean and the incision.
• Define when the clock starts on the time interval between the decision to conduct an emergency cesarean and the incision.
• Identify how the chain of command comes into play when emergency medical attention is needed during a labor.
• Identify how knowing and following your hospital's policies and procedures could protect you in a malpractice suit.