Please join us …
When: Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 12–1 p.m.
Where: ICES, G-Wing, Conference Centre (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)
Who: Elizabeth Asztalos MD MSc FRCPC; Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; Staff Neonatologist, Department of Newborn & Developmental Paediatrics; Director of Neonatal Research, Women and Babies Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
Topic: Antenatal corticosteroid: brain, behaviour, and epigenetics
Learning objectives
- review current status of use of antenatal corticosteroids (ACS): benefits to the preterm infant <28 completed weeks gestation
- understand expanded use of ACS: perceived benefits to the later preterm infant
- review the literature evaluating the effect of ACS on fetuses exposed to ACS but then born at term
- potential study to evaluate the effects of ACS on the exposed fetus born at term
Elizabeth Asztalos