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Course Description: *

This course provides quality improvement strategies and multidisciplinary approaches to care for pregnant and postpartum patients experiencing sepsis including implementing evidence-based criteria for sepsis assessment, best practices to prevent infections, post-stabilization management and more. This course features a comprehensive overview of the Sepsis in Obstetric Care AIM Patient Safety Bundle and its key elements.

The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health’s (AIM) mission is to support best practices that make birth safer, improve maternal health outcomes, and save lives. To learn more about patient safety bundles, please visit www.saferbirth.org

Learning Objectives: *

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify strategies to increase prevention of infection and recognition of sepsis during pregnancy and the postpartum period

• Describe necessary components and considerations to appropriately care for pregnant or postpartum people with sepsis or suspected sepsis

• Implement strategies for reviewing care provided to pregnant or postpartum people with sepsis, systems learning, and provision of respectful, equitable, and supportive care