Fetal and Maternal Emergency Medicine

A central clinical development priority

The program places fetal and maternal emergency readiness within the core emergency medicine agenda. Its purpose is to strengthen recognition, coordinated response, education and access to appropriate equipment through collaboration with obstetrics, maternal fetal medicine, nursing, EMS and related disciplines.

Program responsibilities

• Support research into recognition of fetal compromise, including fetal hypoxemia
• Strengthen emergency department assessment and escalation readiness
• Expand undergraduate, residency and continuing professional education
• Evaluate equipment availability, monitoring pathways and transfer arrangements
• Develop institutional partnerships, simulation and implementation measures

Clinical innovation through collaboration

Emergency medicine contributes knowledge from the first point of acute care. The program encourages collaborative research across specialties, including lessons from evolving cardiac diagnostic research, while testing new approaches against reliable clinical evidence.

Institutional adoption

The implementation agenda connects education with equipment, clinical governance, specialist consultation and receiving arrangements. A stronger field requires training, research and reliable delivery together.

• Readiness and Training
• Monitoring and Technology
• Research Library