Learning Objectives:

• Identify studies that are most useful to evaluate a perinatal demise with no known etiology;
• Select which studies will be most informative for a perinatal demise in which a specific etiology is suspected;
• Discuss how to develop a management plan for subsequent pregnancy after a patient has experienced a perinatal loss;
• Describe how to interpret placental pathology findings from adverse perinatal events;
• State the process for reporting fetal and maternal deaths in Illinois.