Heart rate, Respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color
What is the APGAR score?
100
Fine hair that covers premature infants.
What is Lanugo?
100
yellow skin color after the first day of life
What is jaundice?
100
abnormality of the abdomen in which there is a congenital lack of abdominal musculature
What is prune belly?
200
We do this after drying and warming the infant in the delivery room
What is suctioning/clearing of the airway?
200
At 1 and 5 minutes this is done
When is the Apgar score performed?
200
30-60
What is the respiratory rate of a newborn?
200
Blue black pigmentation on the buttocks, often confused as bruising.
What is Mongolian spots?
200
2 arteries and 1 vein
What is the umbilical cord?
300
Infants first bowel movement.
What is Meconium?
300
First 12 hours after birth
What is the gestational age of the baby?
300
120-170
What is the normal heart rate of an infant?
300
scoring system used to quantify distress that considers nasal flaring, expiratory grunting, tachypnea and retractions.
What is the Silverman Score?
300
incomplete opening into the nasopharynx due to membranous or bony structures
What is choanal atresia?
400
Flicking the soles of the feet, rubbing the back, drying the baby with a towel
What is providing stimulation?
400
Postnatal Exam for determining gestational age
What is the Ballard Score?
400
Blue hands and feet.
What is Acrocyanosis?
400
Bowel sounds are heard in the chest with the absence of breath sounds.
What is diaphragmatic hernia?
400
characterized by a small jaw, cleft palate and posteriorly displaced tongue
What is Pierre Robin syndrome?
500
All the things we do when a baby is first born
What is drying, warming, suctioning and stimulating?
500
White cheesy like substance that suggests earlier gestational age.
What is vernix?
500
Suggests hypotension or anemia.
What is Mottling?
500
Another name for a malformation of the chest causing a pigeon chest appearance.
What is pectus carinatum?
500
The symmetry of the spine is easy to examine in the newborn. A few infants have the congential malformations. These defects results from failure of the embryonic neural tube to form correctly in the third to fifth week of gestation