Planning for Death While Celebrating Life Inutero: A Multidisciplinary Perinatal Palliative Care Plan for a Pregnant Patient and Her Family Carrying a Fetus with Trisomy-13

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Planning for Death While Celebrating Life Inutero: A Multidisciplinary Perinatal Palliative Care Plan for a Pregnant Patient and Her Family Carrying a Fetus with Trisomy-13

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Joanna CM Cole, PhD, CD (DONA) , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Tyra Jones, RNC-OB, MSN, CRNP , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Shaughnessy, MS, CCLS , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Sara Chadwick, MS, MPH, LCGC , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Dave Munson, MD , Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Julie Moldenhauer, MD , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Phiadelphia, PA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:

Submission Description:
There is a unique opportunity for providers to partner with patients and families carrying a baby with a life-limiting diagnosis. Attending to a woman’s prenatal care, while working through her grief throughout the prenatal course, can strengthen her capacity to prepare for the anticipated death of her baby and potentially minimize its traumatic impact. This case will highlight the multidisciplinary perinatal care of a pregnant woman and her family whose fetus was diagnosed with Trisomy-13.

The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.