On behalf of the Education Subcommittee of the South Australian Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Committee
Welcome to the 2016 Perinatal Forum
Which happens to be the 20th consecutive year and the tenth to be titled the Annual Dr. Brian Pridmore Perinatal Forum
I'm Amy Wilshire I'm one of the ONG consultants who works at Women's and Children's but not currently
And hopefully won't do anything right this second either
Firstly we would like to acknowledge this land that we meet on today is the traditional lands for the Kaurna people and that we respect their
spiritual relationship with the country We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as
the custodians of the Adelaide region and that their cultural and heritage beliefs
are still as important to the living Karuna people today
It's great to see so many people here tonight
We're very grateful for the assistance provided through the University of Adelaide in allowing us to use this venue
It's the second year we've been able to do this and it has certainly overcome
some of our spacial and audio-visual challenges we've had in previous years which is fantastic
It's also great to be able to have the filming of the forum again this year
as we've done for the last few years The edited version of the forum is placed on the SA Health website
and this allows our colleagues who are not necessarily able to get here at the time
to be able to have access to this event and so we want to keep this function going
It does depend on the number of hits so please use it yourself or encourage people to use it
you can find it through sahealth.sa.gov.au
going into clinical resources down to the perinatal section of the clinical topics part
and you'll see it there as a separate heading and certainly the last couple
of years are up there for your perusal at the moment
Other things to think about Your feedback is vital and we would really appreciate
completion of the forms that are going to be down here at the front at the end of the evening
Just complete then hand it back to us. Certainly helps us in preparation for the next year's forum
Certainly we can pick topics based on that but also we take on board what people say which is great
We'd like to commend Robyn Kennare and Dr Wendy Sheil from the Pregnancy Outcome Unit
for all the hard work they do in helping to bring all the components of these events together
And of course Dr Brian Wheatley and Dr Manish Bhatia
You'll hear from Manish later tonight as one of our experts
and of course Mojgan Vatani who's our new leader
As the subcommittee of the main maternal and perinatal mortality committee we're also
requested to each year bring to your attention the latest recommendations
that will appear in the most recent annual report
and so these are coming from the 2014 report and there aren't very many recommendations in that calendar year but, the first:
"When a pregnant rhesus negative woman has vaginal bleeding
fetomaternal haemorhage should be quantified to determine the dose of Anti D to be administered"
And from previous yearsm highlighted by deaths in 2014:
"Urgent medical advice should be sought for all infants who are
excessively drowsy and/or are feeding poorly and not gaining weight"
So that completes the recommendations I'm going to hand over to Dr Dr Mojgan Vatani now
to take over the next part of the evening
I'm going to be very short. I'm Mojgan Vatani i'm also one of the ONG specialists
at Women's and Children's and very nice to see so many people here
For people who have been here just at recent years there then you have changed so we
go through their mock case scenarios and then we present the case and we ask our
experts to come and give us a talk and it will be a time at the end of the
talk to ask questions and then at the end we ask all the experts
come here and also ask more questions so it's very important to please ask
any question you want to at the end and
and also we really would like your participation which has been but one of
the very good strengths of this meeting