PQCNC will bring our regional labor support classes to every perinatal region in the state in 2019. These are interactive trainings, including case scenarios and hands on practice stations to support a vaginal birth. All sessions will begin at 10:00 AM and end at 3:00 PM. Lunch will be provided and there is no charge for participating hospitals.
AUGUST 23rd-REGION II
Forsyth Medical Center
3333 Silas Creek airway
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Charter Hall in the NHFMC Conference Center
Parking is free. Park in parking deck
Register here
SEPTEMBER 16- REGION IV UNC Rex Hospital
Rex Heart & Vascular Building
2800 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh NC.
Auditoriums A&B located on the first floor of the Heart & Vascular building
Parking is free and participants can park in H&V parking garage. Register here.
OCTOBER 9- REGION V
SEAHEC
2511 Delaney Avenue
Wilmington, NC 28403
Pelican Room
Parking is free in a designated lot at 2514 Delaney Avenue, diagonally across from the SEAHEC building. Attendees are to park in this space then access the building through the front doors facing Delaney. Register here.
OCTOBER 17- REGION I MAHEC Graduate Medical Education, 121 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803 Register here.
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PQCNC is proud to announce that registration is now open for the statewide Newborn Hypoglycemia Prevention and Care (NHPC) initiative.
The NHPC Expert Team will create a concise action plan which will guide hospital NHPC teams in this work as well as measures which will guide teams and the collaborative in this work.
The NHPC collaborative will be facilitated by the PQCNC core team working with your hospital teams and, as with all PQCNC initiatives, will include informative webinars and quarterly face to face learning sessions as well as weekly email updates to keep all apprised of new reports on the topic, opportunities to excel developed by teams, and critical developments in the collaborative.
The PQCNC NHPC initiative offers your facility a unique, structured opportunity to address the challenges of hypoglycemia. This project will be approved for Maintenance of Certification for your physician providers. Our face to face learning sessions will offer CEU and CME credit.
This all is at NO cost to your hospital.
Want to join us on this incredible journey? - use the links above.
Ready to get started and submit your team roster? Click here
PQCNC is proud to announce that registration is now open for the statewide Safe Reduction of Primary Cesarean Birth (RPC) initiative.
The RPC Expert Team will create a concise action plan which will guide hospital RPC teams in this work as well as measures which will guide teams and the collaborative in this work.
The RPC collaborative will be facilitated by the PQCNC core team working with your hospital teams and, as with all PQCNC initiatives, will include informative webinars and quarterly face to face learning sessions as well as weekly email updates to keep all apprised of new reports on the topic, opportunities to excel developed by teams, and critical developments in the collaborative.
The PQCNC RPC initiative offers your facility a unique, structured opportunity to address the challenges of safe reduction of primary cesarean birth. Our face to face learning sessions will offer CEU and CME credit.
This all is at NO cost to your hospital.
Want to join us on this incredible journey? - use the links above.
Join the Newborn Hypoglycemia Prevention and Care (NHPC) Expert Team - click here
Expert Team Resources
Dextrose gel for neonatal hypoglycaemia (the Sugar Babies Study): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial - This seminal article has shaped the management of neonatal hypoglycemia. This study out of New Zealand recommends treatment with dextrose gel be considered the first-line treatment to manage hypoglycemia in late preterm and term babies in the first 48 hours after birth. The authors concluded dextrose gel is inexpensive, simple to administer and can successfully reverse newborn hypoglycemia.
Neonatal hypoglycemia, defined as a plasma glucose level of less than 30 mg/dL (1.65 mmol/L) in the first 24 hours of life and less than 45 mg/dL (2.5 mmol/L) thereafter, is the most common metabolic problem in newborns. Major long-term sequelae include neurologic damage resulting in mental retardation, recurrent seizure activity, developmental delay, and personality disorders. Some evidence suggests that severe hypoglycemia may impair cardiovascular function.
Outcome at two years after dextrose gel treatment for neonatal hypoglycemia; Follow up of a randomized trial - This follow up study to the Sugar Babies paper confirms that treatment with dextrose gel is not associated with additional risks or benefits at two years of age. The authors claim that clinicians and families can be reassured that the advantages of treatment with dextrose gel soon after birth are not counterbalanced by increased risk of poor neurodevelopmental outcomes at two years’ corrected age.
Clinical Report—Postnatal Glucose Homeostasis in Late-Preterm and Term Infants - Published in Pediatrics, this report provides a practical guide and algorithm for the screening and subsequent management of neonatal hypoglycemia. Highlighting the fact that no rigorous scientific definition has been reached, this influential article from 2011, continues to be endorsed today as the guidelines to manage neonatal hypoglycemia by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants. - This extensive Cochrane review discusses the general consensus that “minimally, skin to skin contact should continue until the end of the first successful breastfeeding in order to show an effect and to enhance early infant self-regulation.” Cited in this article as one of the common reasons for separation is hypoglycemia. The review highlights evidence for a clinically meaningful increase in blood glucose in infants who received skin to skin contact and goes on to say that even if practiced for a “short time at birth [skin to skin contact] should have measurable breastfeeding effects one to four months’ post birth.”
New approaches to management of neonatal hypoglycemia. - This very informative article focuses on the role of buccal dextrose gel in the management of asymptomatic neonatal hypoglycemia and encourages the use of dextrose gel as part of a treatment protocol. Additionally, the authors support the abandonment of the intravenous dextrose bolus for the treatment of asymptomatic, hypoglycemic late preterm, LGA, SGA/IUGR, and IDM newborns.
