Learning Objectives:

1. Identify studies that are most useful to evaluate a perinatal demise with no known etiology.

2. Select which studies will be most informative for a perinatal demise in which a specific etiology is suspected.

3. Discuss how to develop a management plan for subsequent pregnancy after a patient has experienced a perinatal loss.

4. Describe how to interpret placental pathology findings from adverse perinatal events.

5. State the process for reporting fetal and maternal deaths in Illinois.