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Issues Around Periviability: What is an Obstetrician to do?

Melissa Rosenstein, MD, MAS University of California, San Francisco October 15, 2015

Disclosures

• I have no financial disclosures to make

Objectives

• Review new evidence and recent guidelines

regarding management of periviable birth

• Explore the implications of changing

resuscitation thresholds

• Present a framework for counseling parents

facing a periviable delivery

• Focus on the experience and role of the
• bstetrician in making decisions around

resuscitation

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Further down the page…

• 22-week-old babies did not survive without

medical intervention.

– 78 cases with active treatment

• 18 survived
• 7 of those did not have moderate or severe impairments.
• 6 had serious problems such as blindness, deafness, severe

CP

• 755 born at 23 weeks

– 542 cases active treatment

• One-third survived
• Half of the survivors had no significant problems.

Belluck P. New York Times. 2015 May 6, 2015. Rysavy MA, et al.. N Engl J Med. 2015 May 7;372(19):1801-11. Rysavy MA, et al.. N Engl J Med. 2015 May 7;372(19):1801-11.

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Impairment Definitions

• Severe impairment

– cognitive or motor score (Bayley-III) of less than 70

• (i.e., >2 SD below the scale mean)

– severe cerebral palsy – Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level of 4 or 5

• (scale is 0-5)

– bilateral blindness (visual acuity, <20/200 – severe hearing impairment that cannot be corrected with bilateral amplification.

• Moderate impairment

– Bayley-III cognitive or motor score of 70 to 84

• (i.e., 1 to 2 SD below the scale mean),

– moderate cerebral palsy – GMFCS level of 2 or 3.

Neurodevelopmental Impairment

Outcome Among Survivors 22 N=18 23 N=173 24 N=598 25 N=850 Without Moderate or Severe NDI 7 (39%) 83 (47%) 327 (54%) 523 (61%) Moderate NDI 5 (28%) 48 (28%) 160 (27%) 198 (23%) Severe NDI 6 (33%) 42 (24%) 111 (19%) 129 (15%) Adapted from Supplemental Table 2, Rysavy MA, et al.. N Engl J Med. 2015 May 7;372(19):1801-11.

NICHD Joint Statement

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The small print

• Between 22 - 25 weeks of gestation, there may be mitigating

factors (IUGR, malformations, aneuploidy, prolonged membrane rupture) that will affect the determination of viability

• The majority of survivors born at 25 6/7 weeks of gestation or less

will incur major morbidities, regardless of gestational age at birth;

• Data from recent large studies suggest survival with delivery at 22

0/7 through 22 6/7 weeks of gestation to be 5-6%.

• With survival rates of approximately 26-28% and higher, infants

born at 23 0/7 weeks through 25 6/7 weeks of gestation are generally considered potentially viable

Raju TN, Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014 May;210(5):406-17.

NICHD Survival Data

From: Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993-2012

• JAMA. 2015;314(10):1039-1051. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.10244

Infant Survival to Discharge

From: Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993-2012

• JAMA. 2015;314(10):1039-1051. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.10244

Infant Survival to Discharge Without Major Morbidity Infant Survival to Discharge

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Viability

“In general, those born at 23 weeks of gestation should be considered potentially viable…”

Raju TN, Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014 May;210(5):406-17.

Viability

• “..viability marks the earliest point at which the State’s

interest in fetal life is constitutionally adequate to justify a legislative ban on nontherapeutic abortions.”

• “Whenever viability may occur, be it at 23–24 weeks,

the standard at the time, or earlier, as may be the standard sometime in the future, the attainment of viability serves as the critical fact in abortion legislature.”

– Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA. v Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).

Viability - California

• “the point in a pregnancy when, in the good

faith medical judgment of a physician, on the particular facts of the case before that physician, there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus’ sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.”

– CA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 123460- 123468

From NICHD statement

“importantly, providers and families should understand that initiation of intervention to enhance outcomes (eg, antibiotics for preterm PROM, antenatal corticosteroid administration) does not mandate that all other aggressive interventions (eg. cesarean delivery) be undertaken regardless of clinical circumstances in the periviable period”

Raju TN, Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2014 May;210(5):406-17.

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Periviable Cesarean

• Increased risk of uterine rupture in a

subsequent pregnancy

– 1.8% (8/456) vs. 0.4% (38/10,505)

• Even excluding classical incisions
• Mean gestational age in 2nd delivery: 36wks
• Inability to see or hold baby
• Painful recovery during difficult time

Lannon SM et al, Obstet Gynecol. 2015 May;125(5):1095-100.

Effect of Method of Delivery

• No difference in neurodevelopmental
• utcomes at age 2
• No difference in mortality
• No difference in short-term morbidity
• Reserve CD for obstetric indications

Mercer BM, Semin Perinatol. 2013 12;37(6):417-21. Običan SG et al, Obstet Gynecol. 2015 10;213(4):578.e1,578.e4.

AAP Guide to Counseling

• “In addition, whereas previous publications

may have provided specific recommendations based on the anticipated gestational age, this statement emphasizes the limitations of that approach and the need to individualize

• counseling. “

Cummings J, COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN. Pediatrics. 2015 Aug 31.

Limitations of Gestational Age Cutoffs

• Variable and rapid rate of fetal development

during the early third trimester

• Inaccuracy of gestational dating
• Other factors

– Gender – Steroids – Multiples – Birthweight

Cummings J, COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN. Pediatrics. 2015 Aug 31.

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Components of Counseling

• assessment of risks
• communication of those risks
• ongoing support

Cummings J, COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN. Pediatrics. 2015 Aug 31.

What information to give?

• Institutional vs. Local vs. National?

– Depends on patterns of resuscitation – Depends on numbers of babies

• Range rather than specific number
• Written/Visual aides requested by parents

– Consider literacy levels

Gaucher N, Payot A. Paediatr Child Health. 2011;16(10): 638–642

NICHD NRN calculator

Arnold C, Tyson JE. Semin Perinatol. 2014 2;38(1):2-11 https://neonatal.rti.org

Hope

• Communicating only negative information

perceived as having “given up”

• Lack of optimism leads to mistrust and

adversarial relationship

• Acknowledge grief and fear
• Physicians who express emotion more likely to

be perceived as compassionate and hopeful

Grobman WA et al, Obstet Gynecol. 2010 May;115(5):904-9. Boss RD et al, Pediatrics. 2008 Sep;122(3):583-9.

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“What would you do”

• Use as bridge to inquire about patient

– Attitudes – Fears – Preferences – Values – Goals

Tucker Edmonds B et al, Patient Educ Couns. 2015 Jan;98(1):49-54.

Importance of Team Counseling

• Divergent estimates given on likelihood of

survival and disability

• Different definitions of “intact survival”
• Specialists defer to each other on

management questions (steroids)

Tucker Edmonds B et al, J Perinatol. 2015 May;35(5):344-8. Tucker Edmonds B et al, J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2014 Nov 14:1-5.

Patient Desires

• Team approach
• Time to think
• Multiple visits
• Expressions of sympathy
• Hope
• Range of numbers
• Ongoing support

Srinivas SK. Semin Perinatol. 2013 12;37(6):426-30.

Manley BJ et al, Pediatrics. 2010; 125(3).

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UCSF Policy

Resuscitation at limits of viability

• >26 weeks – Universal resuscitation (unless lethal

anomaly or other reason not viable)

• 25+0 – 25+6 – Resuscitation is default option, with

parental choice for comfort care or resuscitation

• 24+0 – 24+6 – Do not recommend resuscitation.

Parental choice for comfort care or resuscitation, based on individual risk factors

• 23+0 – 23+6 – Strong recommendation against
• resuscitation. Parental choice to be considered IF

meets ALL mandatory criteria:

UCSF Criteria for Resuscitation at 23w

MANDATORY CRITERIA IN ORDER TO BE OFFERED RESUSCITATION AT 23 +0 - 23+6 [ ] No major congenital anomalies [ ] No chorioamnionitis on presentation, clinical diagnosis made by obstetrics team [ ] Greater than 24 hours from first dose of BMZ [ ] Category 1 or 2 Fetal Heart Rate Tracing; no evidence of category III tracing

• n presentation

[ ] No prior or current laminaria placement RELATIVE CONTRAINDICATIONS TO RESUSCITATION AT 23 0/7 – 23 6/7, unless otherwise specified [ ] multiple gestation pregnancy [ ] IUGR (<10%ile) [ ] Unexplained or prolonged oligohydramnios

Counseling Team

• Pregnant patient, with partner, intended

parent(s) or other anticipated guardian, if applicable

• MFM Fellow, and/or MFM or OB attending (or

Chief OB resident)

• Neonatology Fellow and/or Attending
• L&D bedside RN
• ICN triage RN
• Social worker, as available

Talking Points

• Use name and gender of baby
• Details vs. Big Picture
• NEJM Survival Stats
• Obstetric options
• Neonatal options
• Hospital Course

10/15/2015 10 Next Steps

• Northern California Periviability Collaborative
• Data collection
• Individualize decision-making

Thank you!!

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