Integrating early pregnancy loss care into daily infertility and ART practice
Precongress Course 6
Special Interest Group Implantation and Early Pregnancy and Nursing and Midwifery
Course coordinators
Kilian Vomstein (Denmark) and Karen Kirchheiner Jensen (Denmark)
Course type
Advanced
Course description
This course offers a focused, multidisciplinary update on integrating early pregnancy loss care into everyday infertility and ART practice. Through medical and nursing/midwifery perspectives, participants will learn how to prepare patients for future pregnancies, provide immediate psychological support after loss, and translate clinical findings into personalised care.
Educational needs and expected outcomes
Fertility clinic staff need clearer, evidence‑based guidance on preparing patients after pregnancy loss, offering immediate psychological support, and navigating ongoing recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) care. Rapid developments in diagnostics and research also create uncertainty about best practice. This course addresses these gaps by strengthening clinical, communicative, and research skills across the early pregnancy loss/recurrent pregnancy loss pathway.
After this course, participants will be able to prepare patients more effectively for future pregnancies, provide immediate and compassionate psychological support after loss, and translate clinical findings into personalised care. They will strengthen their ability to navigate ongoing RPL with evidence‑based decision‑making, critically appraise innovations such as PGT‑A, and recognise how the team can contribute research within RPL services.
Innovative aspects of the course
It is innovative in its integrated, multidisciplinary approach, combining medical, psychological, and nursing/midwifery expertise. It emphasises practical communication, evidence‑based decision‑making, and the active role of the care team in contributing to and shaping research, while offering clear guidance on evaluating and adopting new developments.
Target audience
All professions; physicians, nurses, midwives, andrologists, counsellors, practice administrators, health secretaries, embryologists, lab technicians
Programme