The Newborn
The creamy cheese like substance covering the baby after birth.
What is the vernix caseosa?
A A hormone secreted by the pancreas that influences
cells to take up glucose
What is insulin?
This hypertensive disorder of pregnancy is diagnosed when blood pressure elevation occurs after 20 weeks gestation without proteinuria or organ involvement.
What is gestational hypertension?
This condition, characterized by excessive fetal size, can lead to difficult labor and potential complications during delivery.
What is macrosomia?
The rationale for administering Vitamin K 1 mg IM for a term newborn after birth.
What takes about 1 week for the baby to be able to synthesize their own vitamin K because the gut is sterile at birth? (Neonate is deficient in intestinal flora)
The triad of symptoms associated with preeclampsia
What is proteinuria, edema and hypertension?
These three symptoms are classic warning signs that may indicate the presence of gestational diabetes.
What is Polydipsia, polyphagia and polyuria?
This calcium channel blocker should not be given with magnesium sulfate due to the risk of severe hypotension and neuromuscular blockade.
What is Nifedipine?
This condition describes fetal size discrepancies that result from chronic insults like maternal undernutrition or acute issues such as placental insufficiency.
What is IUGR?
Obstetric emergency where the placenta separates prematurely from the uterine wall
What is placenta abruption?
This routine screening is recommended for all pregnant women
What is gestational diabetes?
Its pharmacologic actions include lowering heart rate, blood pressure, myocardial contractility, and myocardial oxygen consumption, as well as reducing the vasoconstriction that results from sympathetic nervous system stimulation.
What is the mechanism of action of Labetalol?
This obstetric emergency occurs when the fetal shoulders become impacted against the maternal pelvis after delivery of the head.
What is shoulder dystocia?
A universal newborn screening program in the United States.
What is the Metabolic screening?
Passive, painless dilation of the cervix due to a structural, functional defect
What is cervical insufficiency?
This test is used between 24-28 weeks of gestation to diagnose gestational diabetes in women with average risk.
What is an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)?
A term defined as occurring after 20 weeks of gestation in a previously normotensive woman
What is gestational hypertension?
Three conditions that affect placental blood flow and cause placental dysfunction.
What is hypertension, diabetes and substance abuse?
This assessment tool, scored at 1 and 5 minutes after birth, evaluates a newborn's well being.
What is an apgar score?
A pattern of behaviors exposing the maternity patient to abuse.
What is intimate partner violence (IPV)?
Babies born to mothers with poorly controlled GDM leading to increased risk of shoulder dystocia and clavicular fractures
What is macrosomia?
The patient experiences, cerebral edema & hemorrhage, visual disturbances, H/A, hyperreflexia (3-4+), ankle clonus and seizures
What is CNS irritability?
The patient is 33 weeks and preparing to have an emergency C/S, and the OB ordered a treatment to enhance fetal lung maturation.
What is Betamethasone?