Supplement your learning on The ISUOG Fetal Cardiology Conference 2026

Join us for this engaging and informative course. Together with a panel of expert speakers from around the world, they will dive into the most challenging and evolving aspects of Point of care ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology: from ambulatory to emergency settings. This course offers attendees a valuable opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the new advances in this area and learn how to apply them in practical situations.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the fundamental principles and applications of PoCUS in obstetrics and emergency care, including maternal, cardiovascular, and pulmonary assessments.
  • Demonstrate the ability to perform PoCUS scans for obstetric and emergency procedures, including early pregnancy complications, D&C guidance, IUD insertion, and postpartum haemorrhage evaluation.
  • Apply PoCUS findings to clinical decision-making in the management of symptomatic women, threatened preterm labour, intrapartum assessment, and mode of delivery planning.
  • Explain PoCUS training, credentialing, and quality assurance requirements, including the use of telemedicine, AI, and adherence to ISUOG guidelines.
  • Integrate PoCUS results into patient management to support evidence-based care, improve outcomes, and follow recommended clinical pathways.

Explore the topic before you attend our course

In order to make the most of this learning experience and help you achieve your learning objectives, we have prepared a path to guide you from the essentials to our course’s topics through ISUOG resources. The material below, will take you from the most basics to a more comprehensive view of Point of care ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology: from ambulatory to emergency settings, some open to everyone and some available only to ISUOG members –some may even grant you CME points:
Some of these activities are exclusively available to our members. Become a member today.

ISUOG Guidelines

ISUOG Practice Guidelines: point-of-care ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology

ISUOG Consensus Statement on maternal hemodynamic assessment in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and fetal growth restriction

VISUOG

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Intrapartum Ultrasound

Explore chapters on Intrapartum ultrasound.

 

Patient Information

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The Use of Ultrasound in the Assessment of Fetal Head Descent in Labor

Traditionally, descent or station of the fetal head in the birth canal is assessed by digital examination. The most common technique is the description of the level of the fetal head in relation to the plane of the ischial spines.

Ultrasound determination of fetal head position

This leaflet is to help you understand the determination of fetal head position.

 

UOG Articles

Point-of-care ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology: a powerful instrument calling for standardization and validation studies

V. De Robertis, C. M. Bilardo, T. Stampalija

First published: 26 April 2026

 

Point-of-care ultrasound in labor: measuring angles and distances, and beyond

A. Dall'Asta, T. Ghi

First published: 16 March 2026

 

Shaping the future of obstetric/gynecological ultrasound training

J. Matschl, U. Gembruch, B. Strizek, F. Recker

November 2023

UOG Videos

Using POCUS in obstetrics and on the labour ward

C. Lees 2026

The impact of point of care ultrasound in the management of antepartum and intrapartum period

G. Rizzo 2025

POCUS for cardiovascular evaluation in the emergency room

J. Cornette 2024

 

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