What is Early Fetal Test (Early Baby Test)?

As the world battles the COVID-19 outbreak, the main question for most is simply: “When will it end?” In just few weeks the pandemic created the situation that practically all local and international Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine scientific events were cancelled or rescheduled.

At the moment we are facing significant deceleration in medical professional education. We support national and international effort to stop pandemic, however at the same time we believe that medical society needs to be responsible to situation after COVID-19 outbreak.

Recently we have reviewed our clinical experience on 1^st trimester screening as well as the evidence-based knowledge and have come with the idea of new approach combining 12 weeks anomaly scan and NIPT. We have described this approach as The Early Fetal Test. Unfortunately, we were unable to present this new concept due to lockdowns and cancellations of the scientific events.

London School of Ultrasound has made important technical adjustments in order to be able to start Online Ultrasound Training Worldwide. We are proud to start our new internet-based training from interactive course about our vision of the future of the First Trimester Screening.

We are happy to invite you to the new edition of this essential course. The material of the course is based on extensive practical work for diagnosis of CHD and more than 10 years teaching experience with vast analysis of prenatally undiagnosed cases.

The must course for every fetal medicine and ultrasound professional, obstetricians and fetal medicine midwives and sonographers.

The future of 1^st trimester screening:

• What is Early Fetal Test (Early Baby Test)?
• Current options of 1^st trimester screening: review
  • Combined Screening Test (CST)
  • Ultrasound: Pros and Cons
  • NIPT: Pros and Cons
  • NT thickness measurement (not phenomena) place in future screening protocols
• Ultrasound and NIPT working together, but how?
  • Why 12-13 weeks?
  • Why not 10 weeks?
  • Why not 11 weeks?
  • Why not 14-16 weeks?
• Detection of important anomalies at 12-13 weeks:
  • Spina bifida
  • Holoprosencephaly
  • CHD – cardiac anomalies
  • Facial anomalies
  • CDH – diaphragmatic hernia
  • Amniotic band syndrome
  • Limb reduction anomalies
  • Skeletal dysplasias
• Early Fetal Test – new generation of Combined Screening Test

Technical break  – 20 min

Demonstration of 11-13 weeks cases and clinical situations:

• Technical tips and tricks
• Interesting anomalies
• Management
• Discussion
• Questions and answers

The course will run in the new format. It will be worldwide online interactive ultrasound training course and the participants will have one month free access to the recording of the course via cloud service. It means that you can also register and attend the course as an offline event.

Overall duration of the course will be at least 3 hours.

We are happy to invite you to join us for the Worldwide Online Course. While registered – you will receive the link with instructions to connect to the event.