Documents

Read: 

• Review the ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 212: Pregnancy and Heart Disease for an overview of the risk factors, common cardiac conditions, and recommendations for care for pregnant and postpartum cardiac patients in the US. 

• Learn about Racial and Rural-Urban Disparities in Maternal Cardiac Disease Care in North Carolina, a study of cardiac severe maternal mortality from inpatient data, including disparities in rural/urban and Black/White patient populations.
   
• Read about the Development and implementation of a pregnancy heart team at a Southeastern United States tertiary hospital to understand how to develop and who should be involved in a pregnancy heart team for patients with cardiac disease. 

Listen: 

• Hear an interview with a cardiologist-MFM from the California PQC about Antepartum Assessment of the Pregnant Cardiac Patient, including the importance of cardiac screening in all patients and the roles of different clinicians in planning for cardiac care in pregnancy. 
  
  
• Stay up to date on Maternal Mortality in the US: What's Happening through an episode of The Critical Care Obstetrics Podcast, including discussion of data from maternal mortality review committees and cardiac conditions. 

Brainstorm: 

• Get inspired about changes that could be made by reviewing the tables in the IHI’s Cardiac Conditions in Obstetrical Care Change Package.