Pain Management
An example of general comfort measures during labor.
What is positioning, calming environment, reassurance etc. ?
This hormone is released during the third stage of labor to contract the uterus.
What is oxytocin?
This is the typical length of the third stage of labor.
What is 5 to 15 minutes?
This complication may occur when the uterus fails to contract after the delivery of the placenta.
What is postpartum hemorrhage?
These are the primary sources of pain during the third stage of labor.
What are uterine contractions and perineal stretching?
The temporary maternal organ that is expelled during the third stage of labor?
What is the placenta?
This causes the placenta to seperate from the uterine wall.
What are contractions?
The medical term for the placenta not being expelled in one piece.
Retained placenta.
This pharmacologic pain relief method administered earlier in labor may still be active during the third stage of labor.
What is an epidural?
The size of the uterine cavity changes in this way after the delivery of the placenta.
What is decreases?
This event marks the end of the third stage of labor.
What is the delivery of the placenta?
The medical term for the uterus turning inside out during or after the delivery of the placenta.
What is uterine inversion?
This pharmacologic pain relief method is rarely used in the third stage of labor.
What are systemic opioids?
What nursing intervention can encourage uterine contractions?
What is fundal massage?
This event marks the beginning of the third stage of labor.
What is the delivery of the baby?
This complication can occur during the third stage of labor due to abnormalities with clotting.
What is a blood clot?