BIRTH Congress.

Course 1 — From placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) to complex cesarean section

• Opening lecture: The cesarean section scar and placentation anomalies — Eric Jauniaux
• Pitfalls in the US diagnosis of PAS disorders — SZABO
• Placenta Accreta Spectrum: better screening and diagnosis — Can we reduce its incidence? — Pavel Calda
• How to prevent the complications of the uterine scar (niche formation, placenta accreta spectrum, scar dehiscence)? — Artur Beke
• Cesarean hysterectomy VS uterine sparing surgery: when to do what — Ahmed Hussein
• Surgical management and haemostatic strategies for placenta accreta spectrum: experience from China — Huixia Yang
• New approach to performing myomectomy during cesarean section in pregnant women with large uterine leiomyomas — Sergey Barinov

Course 2 — Simulation on intrapartum and postpartum sonography

• Intrapartum sonography: principles, pros, cons, tricks, limits — Torbjorn Eggebo
• Fetal head descent by US — Rasha Kamel
• Prediction of operative delivery — Samina Dornan
• The influence of traditional paradigms of different obstetric cultures in the interpretation of ultrasound in labor and delivery — Enrico Ferrazzi
• Postpartum sonography — Ilenia Mappa
• Hands-on simulation — Valentina Tsibizova, Ilenia Mappa

Course 3 — Diabetes and obesity: labor and delivery issues

• Antenatal management and planning for delivery — Roland Devlieger
• Fetal macrosomia in maternal diabetes: from prediction to safe birth — Roman Kapustin
• How big is too big? Predicting and managing the large fetus — Nir Melamed
• Pregnancy and intrapartum management in women with pre-existing type 2 diabetes and obesity — Chen Wang
• Obesity during pregnancy and delivery — Yariv Yogev
• Pregnancy following bariatric surgery — Roland Devlieger
• Anesthesia and analgesia in the diabetic and obese patient — Monica Siaulys

Course 4 — Spontaneous preterm birth: prediction, prevention and management

• Inflammation, infection and preterm birth — Roberto Romero
• Pregnancy care models for preterm birth; what works, what does not, and what needs to improve — Dilly O. E. Anumba
• Prediction of spontaneous preterm birth in 2026: what works, what doesn’t, and what comes next? — Jose Luis Bartha
• Pessary and cerclage: what the literature says and what the clinicians do — Eduardo Fonseca
• Cervical Cerclage for the Prevention of Preterm Birth: From Surgical Innovation to Future Strategies — Keun Young Lee
• Progesterone and preterm birth prevention — Roberto Romero
• Not all progestins are the same, especially in their use in pregnancy — PIETTE
• It's all about timing: optimizing the administration of antenatal corticosteroids for fetal lung maturation — Nir Melamed
• Optimising the timing and place of preterm birth - challenges and opportunities to improve — Dilly O. E. Anumba
• Potential impact of predicting/preventing preterm births on neonatal outcomes — Umberto Simeoni
• Update on delivery room care of the newborn and future perspectives — Elmas Zeynep Ince

Course 5 — Simulation and artificial intelligence on the labor and delivery

• Is artificial intelligence really artificial? — Eduardo Cordioli
• Simulation-based training in labor & delivery — Joanna F. Crofts
• Shoulder dystocia: which manoeuvre, when and how? Lessons from simulation — Jose Luis Bartha
• What's the price of NOT doing simulation? — Lukas Drabauer
• How to measure the impact of artificial intelligence and realistic simulation in labor and delivery care — Eduardo Cordioli
• AI, ethics and patient safety — Giuseppe Rizzo

Course 6 — Vaginal delivery after cesarean: what is new?

• Vaginal birth after caesarean in 2026: where are we now? — Diogo Ayres de Campos
• From contraindications to success rate: selecting the right woman for TOLAC — Miroslav Wielgos
• Predicting the success of an individual TOLAC and shared decision making — Ilenia Mappa
• How to induce labour in women with a previous cesarean — Daniel Surbek
• Management of labour and delivery in women with a previous caesarean section — Nicolas Mottet
• Shared decision-making: whose risk are we discussing? — Loic Sentilhes
• Vaginal birth attempts which ended-up in a uterine rupture — Ruby Pillar, Bruno Carbonne
• Beyond one previous cesarean — Yariv Yogev

Openings

Opening lecture — Ignac Semmelweis and puerperal fever: what is still relevant today and maybe we forgot

Reception at Foyer of the Vigadó Theatre

Breaking news with oral communications

• Management and delivery of patients with placenta accreta spectrum disorders — Tamara Yarygina

The diagnosis of labor and assessment of labor progress

• Is this labor? And is it progressing? — The art and science of labor assessment — Roberto Romero
• The sequences of labor progression — Torbjorn Eggebo
• The impact of subpubic angle on the mode of delivery — Enrico Ferrazzi
• The digital labor ward: a “phygital” concept — Eduardo Cordioli

Break

Poster View, Exhibits

Fetal monitoring during labor: which is now the challenge with AI?

• Implementation of physiological interpretation of fetal heart rate changes: from scientific principles to frontline practice — Susana Pereira
• Challenges with implementation of computer analysis of cardiotocograms — Diogo Ayres de Campos
• When AI gets the CTG right but the fetus goes wrong — Mikko Tarvonen
• The added value of US in labor monitoring — Giuseppe Rizzo
• Technology-driven strategies to reduce neonatal hypoxia — Eduardo Cordioli

Lunch

Poster View, Exhibits

Obstetrical analgesia/anesthesia: nitrous oxide, opioids, epidural, epidural-related complications

• Anesthesia & analgesia: epidural trends & risks — Emilia Guasch
• How to perform the peripudendal block? Reducing the rate of episiotomy — Artur Beke
• Anesthesia for cesarean: the risky cases — Monica Siaulys

Induction and augmentation of labor

• Indications for induction of labor — Daniel Surbek
• Priming of labor with tafoxiparin — Gunvor Ekman-Orderberg
• Pros and cons of oxytocin — Loic Sentilhes
• The small fetus at term: when is it time to deliver in late-onset growth restriction? — Nir Melamed
• Third-trimester fetal weight estimation and induction of labour for suspected LGA — Emmanuel Attali

Break

Poster View, Exhibits

Operative and assisted vaginal delivery

• Operative vaginal birth vs cesarean — Bruno Carbonne
• Assisted vaginal birth in 21st century: current practice and new innovations — Joanna F. Crofts
• When vacuum is the standard: what could OdonAssist add? — Nicolas Mottet
• The use of ultrasound in difficult labor — Ilenia Mappa
• Mode of delivery in twins: recent evidence and individualized risk assessment — Nir Melamed
• Use of antibiotics in the delivery room following vaginal operative delivery — Yariv Yogev

Closing lecture of the day — Declining fertility, low birth rate, assisted reproductive technologies and how we are born today

Social event

Saturday, 12 December — details to be confirmed.

Breaking news with oral communications

• Defective placentation and potential screening and prevention — Nandor Gabor Than

Pelvic floor injury during a vaginal delivery

• Pelvic Floor Injury During Vaginal Birth: What Actually Happens? — Enrico Ferrazzi
• Pelvic Floor Disorder: Silent epidemic and our failure to address the risks of vaginal delivery — Samina Dornan
• Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI): Recognition, Repair and Follow-up — Rasha Kamel

Break

Poster View, Exhibits

Perinatal issues in delivery and postpartum

• The concept of thromboinflammation in high-risk pregnancy — Victoria Bitsadze
• When women with P-PROM should be delivered? — Apostolos Athanassiadis
• Pregnancy in patients after previous resective-reconstructive uterine repair for placenta accreta spectrum disorders — Sergey Barinov
• Group B Streptococcus at birth: are we screening at the wrong time? — Jose Luis Bartha
• Pediatric outcomes after maternal nipocalimab for haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn — Roland Devlieger
• Hemodynamic aspects of transition in neonates with meconium aspiration — Istvan Seri

Lunch

Poster View, Exhibits

The “fourth trimester” and the long term effects of pregnancy and delivery on women and children's health

• The fourth trimester: recovery, adjustment and maternal health — Yariv Yogev
• The invisible scar: understanding and healing from birth trauma and postpartum PTSD — Dilly O. E. Anumba
• Developmental programming: from periconception to aging — Umberto Simeoni

Serious obstetrical emergencies in the delivery unit

• Management of hypertension and VTE prophylaxis — Offer Erez
• Antiphospholipid antibodies across the maternal–fetal interface: implications for high-risk pregnancy and neonatal outcomes — Jamila Khizroeva
• Beyond reality: virtual reality simulation in obstetric emergencies — Alex Farr
• Beyond survival: the next frontier in postpartum hemorrhage care — Eduardo Cordioli

Keynote closing address — Rethinking Obstetric Violence: Language, Consent, and Respect in Birth

End of the Congress