OVERVIEW
The Annual REI Nursing Congress: Scientific & Therapeutic Approaches to Assisted Reproductive Technology (StartART) provides a unique and comprehensive educational opportunity for nurses and other REI professionals, featuring critical updates on the latest advances in reproductive medicine from procedures and protocols to lab updates, innovations in genetics, impact of social change, and current legal issues. The goal of this annual congress is to provide late-breaking information, cutting-edge techniques, and best practices to improve ART outcomes. This goal is enhanced by the unique contributions that REI nurses make to the field of reproductive medicine through their skills, compassion, and caring.
The Annual REI Nursing Congress: Scientific & Therapeutic Approaches to Assisted Reproductive Technology (StartART) provides a unique and comprehensive educational opportunity for nurses and other REI professionals, featuring critical updates on the latest advances in reproductive medicine from procedures and protocols to lab updates, innovations in genetics, impact of social change, and current legal issues. The goal of this annual congress is to provide late-breaking information, cutting-edge techniques, and best practices to improve ART outcomes. This goal is enhanced by the unique contributions that REI nurses make to the field of reproductive medicine through their skills, compassion, and caring.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending this educational congress, the attendee should be able to:
After attending this educational congress, the attendee should be able to:
- Distinguish strategies for selecting stimulation protocols according to responder types to optimize outcomes;
- Explain the challenges and management issues associated with advanced parental age;
- Discuss the impact of disease and treatment strategies for endometriosis and PCOS on reproductive potential;
- Summarize current diagnostic criteria and treatment strategies for endometriosis;
- Identify advances in oocyte cryopreservation for donor egg banking;
- Review progress in male reproductive medicine;
- Debate current legal and liability issues encountered in ART practice;
- Examine concepts and progress in stem cell research;
- Differentiate between cryopreserved and fresh embryos in terms of outcomes;
- Assess the impact of reproductive and developmental toxicity;
- Apply guidelines and algorithms to improve recurrent pregnancy loss;
- Describe innovations in lab techniques from IVF retrieval to embryo transfer;
- Demonstrate the value of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy;
- Summarize advances in fertility preservation and the application of recent guidelines.
