Cardiac
Respiratory
Maternal factors
Thermoregulation
Miscellaneous
100

Caused by acute blood loss due to placental abruption, cord tethering, uterine rupture, placental insufficiency, knot in the cord, or a prolapsed cord.

What is hypovolemic shock? 

100

This condition is characterized by tachypnea, mild increased work of breathing, and the ability to maintain O2 saturations WNL without supplemental O2.

What is mild RDS? 

100

Newborns may experience this as a response to maternal medications or substance use during pregnancy.

What is NOWS/NAS? 

100

The thermal environment in which the newborn is consuming the least amount of oxygen and has reduced metabolic needs. 

What is a neutral thermal environment? 

100

A pathologic condition of the fetus in which length, weight and OFC are below the expected in utero growth rate.  

What is intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)? 

200

These 4 cardiopulmonary adaptations occur immediately after birth, allowing the newborn to transition successfully to extra-uterine life. 

Closure of the foramen ovale 

Functional closure of the ductus arteriosus 

Decrease in pulmonary pressure

Increase in systemic pressure 




200

This condition is marked by tachypnea, increased work of breathing, and the need for supplemental O2.

What is moderate RDS?

200

An LGA newborn who is born to a mother with poorly controlled diabetes during pregnancy is at an increased risk for this complication.

What is birth trauma (shoulder dystocia, fractures, nerve damage, excessive bruising)? 

200

Heat loss due to vaporization of water from the skin. 

What is evaporative heat loss? 


200

Even though the production of these 3 essential components starts early in pregnancy, it is only in the 3rd trimester that adequate amounts needed for survival are stored in the organs. 

What are surfactant (lungs), glycogen (liver) and brown fat (surrounding the adrenals, over the liver and the axillae)?


300

This action (performed 60 seconds after birth) and this newborn response prompt the cardiopulmonary changes at delivery.

What are clamping of the umbilical cord and breathing/crying ? 

300

This condition is characterized by increased work of breathing and difficulty maintaining oxygenation, despite significant amounts of supplemental oxygen.

What is severe RDS?

300

This maternal condition may result in a macrosomic newborn, shoulder dystocia/birth trauma, respiratory distress, hypoglycemia, cardiomyopathy, and potential congenital malformations. 

What is gestational diabetes? 

300

This condition is common in preterm newborns, newborns with congenital anomalies with exposed internal organs and newborns who are stressed or compromised during labor/delivery.

What is hypothermia? 

300

This organ is responsible for gas exchange in utero.

What is the placenta?

400

This newborn screening is completed close to discharge (a minimum of 24 hours of life) to identify a potential cardiac condition. 

What is critical congenital heart defect screening? 

400

This condition, which may be caused by excessive pressure during bag/mask ventilation, is characterized by increased work of breathing, diminished lung sounds and asymmetrical chest movement. 

What is a pneumothorax? 

400

This maternal complication can affect fetal outcomes due to placental insufficiency from vasoconstriction, often resulting in growth restriction, low birth weight, abruption, and preterm birth.

What is maternal hypertension? 

400

This type of heat loss is caused by air currents or drafts.  

What is convection?

400

This fetal heart rate category is characterized by absent baseline variability and any of the following: recurrent late decelerations, recurrent variable decelerations, bradycardia or a sinusoidal pattern.

What is Category III FHR? 

500

The failure to transition from a state of high pulmonary pressures in utero to a normal systemic blood pressure and low pulmonary pressures after birth may result in this potentially critical newborn condition.

What is Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension (PPHN)? 

500

The production of this component starts around 20 weeks' gestation and is at a sufficient quantity to support extra-uterine life by 34 weeks' gestation.

What is surfactant? 

500

An infection of the chorion, amnion, and amniotic fluid.

What is chorioamnionitis? 

500

An important mechanism used to generate heat in the term/near term newborn.

What is brown fat metabolism?

500

This is the minimum target blood glucose for a newborn at 3 hours of life. 

What is 40? 

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