Implementation of Universal Postpartum Screening on a High Risk L&D Unit Specializing in Delivering Babies with Birth Defects

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Implementation of Universal Postpartum Screening on a High Risk L&D Unit Specializing in Delivering Babies with Birth Defects

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
Michelle Olkkola, MSN, RN , Special Delivery Unit, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
K. Starr Lynch, RNC-OB BSN , Special Delivery Unit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Kelsey Berger, BS , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 19104, PA
Julie Moldenhauer, MD , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Phiadelphia, PA
Lori Howell, MS, RN , Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

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

Learning Objectives:
  • Differentiate the rates of depression, anxiety and traumatic stress among women carrying babies with birth defects
  • Summarize strategies used to implement screening for psychological risk on a high risk obstetrics unit
  • Describe the prevalence rates of psychological distress among postpartum women in response to seeing their baby in the ICU

    • Submission Description:
    There is a movement to develop objective measures to screen for depression and anxiety risk among postpartum women; however, little is known about the rates of psychological risk among women whose babies are immediately transferred to an ICU. This study demonstrates how a universal screening protocol was implemented into a high risk labor and delivery unit specializing in caring for women delivering babies with birth defects.

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