GaPQC History and QI
The state agency that GaPQC operates in partnership with
What is the GA Department of Public Health (DPH)
The physiologic change in pregnancy that increases cardiac workload by up to 50%
What is increased blood volume and increased cardiac output
The most common cause of postpartum hemorrhage
What is uterine atony
The frequency term newborns eat in a 24 hour period
What is 8-12 times a day
The recommended timeframe for treatment in the Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy PSB
What is 30-60 minutes
The national organization that developed many of the maternal safety bundles implemented by GaPQC
What is the AlM?
Most pregnancy related cardiac deaths occur during this period
What is postpartum period
The blood pressure reading that defines severe hypertension in pregnancy
What is a systolic blood pressure >/ 160 or a diastolic reading >/ 110
The hormone that triggers milk ejection or the let-down reflex
What is oxytocin
When breastfeeding or pumping, the hypothalamus stimulates the release of this hormone from the anterior pituitary
What is prolactin
What PDSA stands for
What is the Plan Do Study Act cycle
A first-line imaging study to evaluate cardiac function in pregnancy
What is an echocardiogram?
The first-line medication for uterine atony
What is Oxytocin?
The place that accepts one time or on-going donations of breastmilk
What is a milk depot
A practice that promotes immunological defense and positive experiences
What is colostrum care
The year GaPQC was founded
What is 2012
A lab used to assist in the evaluation of suspected heart failure
What is a BNP
A uterotonic that is contraindicated in patients with hypertension
What is Methylergonovine (Methergine)
A tool that compares an infant's weight with a large sample of newborns in order to identify breastfeeding neonates on a trajectory of greater weight loss
What is the NEWT tool
The antidote to reverse magnesium toxicity
What is calcium gluconate
Provide at least one maternal and one neonatal initiative GaPQC has implemented
What is CCOC or HTN or Hemorrhage or ABX stewardship, LARCs, Hep B vaccination or antenatal Corticosteroids and ONN or NAS or CCHD screening or antibiotic stewardship
Two chronic conditions that increase cardiac risk in pregnancy
What is hypertension, diabetes, obesity, pre-existing heart disease
The 4 T's of hemorrhage
What are Tone, Trauma, Tissue, and Thrombin
A feeding assessment tool that contains 5 components that are each rated on a 0-2 scale
What is a LATCH score
The group that experiences disproportionately higher rates of pregnancy-related cardiac mortality
What are Black women