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PROGRAMS
Early pregnancy care & Acute gynecology courses
16 & 17 June 2013
Course: Early pregnancy care day course
Date: Sunday, 16 th June 2013
Course Director: Tom Bourne (UK)
Time Title Suggested speaker
08:00 – 09:15 Early pregnancy
Meet the expert sessions:
1. The psychological impact of early pregnancy events –
which women need intervention?
2. Pregnancy of unknown location
3. Practical management for recurrent miscarriage
4. How to diagnose and drain a pelvic abscess
5. Practical management issues in relation to conservative
management of ectopic pregnancy
1. Maria Jalmbrant
(The Maudesley)
2. Emma Kirk
(Imperial College)
3. Siobhan Quenby
(Warwick)
4. Catriona Stalder
(Imperial College)
5. George Condous
(Sydney)
6. Ahmad Sayasneh
6. Classifying common ovarian cysts you might see in the (Imperial College)
early pregnancy unit
09:15 – 09:20 Welcome and introduction Tom Bourne
(Imperial College)
09:20 – 09:50 Decidualisation, why pregnancies fail, and is there anything Siobhan Quenby
we can do to stop it happening?
(Warwick)
09:50 – 10:20 The ovulation-implantation interval – moving from the Christoph Lees
laboratory to clinical relevance
(Imperial College)
10:20 – 10:50 Developing criteria to define miscarriage: an update from Tom Bourne
the Diagnosis of Miscarriage (DOM) trial
(Imperial College)
10:50 - 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:50 Advising women on the chances of a viable pregnancy Sharmistha Guha
when they visit the early pregnancy unit
(West Middlesex
Hospital)
11:50 – 12:10 Diagnosing retained products – using power Doppler to George Condous
select which cases need intervention
12:10 – 12:40 Management strategies for miscarriage – including vacuum
aspiration. Is expectant management right for all women?
(Sydney)
Cecilia Bottomley
(Chelsea and
Westminster
Hospital)

12:40 – 13:10 Case examples and images Cecilia Bottomley
and Emma Kirk
13:10 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 The ultrasound diagnosis and characteristic features of
tubal ectopic pregnancies
Emma Kirk (Imperial
College)
14:30 – 14:50 The features of non-tubal ectopic pregnancy including
management strategies for caesarean scar pregnancies
George Condous
(Sydney)
14:50 – 15:10 Unusual ectopic pregnancies – some case examples Catriona Stalder
(imperial College)
15:10 – 15:30 Selecting women for expectant, medical and surgical
management – the problem with the NICE guidance
Emma Kirk
(Imperial College)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Serum biochemistry and the management of pregnancy of
unknown location (PUL)
Emma Kirk
(Imperial College)
16:30 – 17:00 Rationalising the management of PUL into low and high-risk
groups – prediction models, progesterone or both?
Tom Bourne
(Imperial College)
17:00 – 17:30 What do you do when the hCG refuses to go down? – the
problem of the persistent PUL and how to avoid getting into
George Condous
(Sydney)
trouble with methotrexate
17:30 – 18:00 Case examples and images Tom Bourne and
Emma Kirk
Course: Acute gynecology day course
Date: Monday, 17 th June 2013
Course director: Tom Bourne (UK)
Time Title Suggested speaker
08:00 – 09:00 Acute gynecology:
Meet the expert over breakfast sessions:
1. Everything you want to know about STI’s
2. Recognising different types of ovarian cysts and
torsion in young women
3. Cross sectional imaging and acute pain in women
4. Practical tips for safe laparoscopic surgery
5. Sepsis protocols – when and how to act quickly
6. Diagnosing miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy
09:00 – 09:30 Recognition and management of STI’s and pelvic
inflammatory disease
09:30 – 10:00 Diagnosing gynecological causes of acute pain:
characteristics of typical ultrasound features of acute
ovarian and tubal pathology (torsion, hemorrhagic cysts,
abscess)
10:00 – 10:30 Relative merits of US, CT and MRI to help you when
women present with acute abdominal or pelvic pain
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
1. Peter Greenhouse
(Bristol)
2. Ahmad Sayasneh
(Imperial College)
3. Syed Babar
(Imperial College)
4. George Condous
( Sydney)
5. Geoff Lockwood
(Imperial College)
6. Emma Kirk
(Imperial College
NHS Trust)
Peter Greenhouse
(Bristol)
Dirk Timmerman
(KU Leuven)
Syed Babar
(Imperial College)

11:00 – 11:30 Recognition and interventions for septic and hemorrhagic
shock in relation to emergency gynecology
Geoff Lockwood
(Imperial College)
11:30 – 12:00 Laparoscopy to treat common causes of pain: ectopic
pregnancy, ovarian cysts, torsion, abscess and
George Condous
(University of Sydney)
appendicitis: relating ultrasound to the surgical findings
12:00 – 12:30 The use of ultrasound to diagnose and emergency
management of non-pregnant heavy vaginal bleeding
Dirk Timmerman
(KU Leuven)
12:30 – 13:00 Features of acute gastrointestinal problems – appendicitis,
diverticulitis and gastroenteritis
Andrew Thillainayagam
(Imperial College)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 The case mix and outcome for women attending an acute
gynecology unit – can ultrasound sort them out?
Ahmad Sayasneh
(Imperial College)
14:30 – 15:00 Ultrasound and MRI features of renal, ureteric and bladder
pathology that may cause pain
Andrea Rockall
(Imperial College)
15:00 – 15:20 Appropriate treatment of urinary tract infections – criteria
for diagnosis and which antibiotics (including in
Vikram Khullar
(Imperial College)
pregnancy)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:20 Diagnostic criteria for miscarriage Tom Bourne
(Imperial College)
16:20 – 16:40 Diagnosing tubal and non tubal ectopic pregnancy Emma Kirk
(Imperial College NHS
Trust)
16:40 – 17:10 Treatment options for ectopic pregnancy including CS
scar pregnancy
George Condous
(University of Sydney)
17:10 – 18:00 Case examples and end of course quiz All faculty