Postpartum Hemorrhage
Administration of this medication during the third stage of labor is a key strategy for preventing postpartum hemorrhage.
What is Pitocin?
This condition is characterized by high blood pressure that develops after the 20th week of pregnancy, typically resolving after delivery.
This term refers to the variation in the fetal heart rate around the baseline, which is an important indicator of fetal well-being.
What is variability?
When clearing secretions, we must clear the mouth first before the nose because of this increased risk.
What is aspiration?
The process by which a provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives to a procedure or intervention.
What is informed consent?
A helpful acronym, known as the 4 T's, describes the potential etiology of a PPH.
What is tone, trauma, tissue, and thrombin?
Women with this chronic health condition, characterized by high blood sugar levels before or during pregnancy, are at an increased risk for developing pregnancy-related hypertension?
This type of deceleration, often attributed to umbilical cord compression, may present with a rapid onset and recovery in the fetal heart rate tracing.
What is variable deceleration?
The color that the CO2 detector changes to if the lungs are intubated.
What is yellow?
A formalized method for communication used to transfer information clearly and effectively.
What is SBAR? (situation, background, assessment, and recommendations)
This intrauterine device, sometimes used in severe cases of postpartum hemorrhage, and works via tamponade, can be temporarily placed to control bleeding.
What is the Bakri?
Criteria for severe range blood pressure. Goal for time frame of treatment of severe range pressure.
What is greater than 160/110, and 60 minutes?
This type of deceleration is characterized by a gradual (how do we define gradual?) decrease in FHRT following a contraction.
What is 30 seconds and a late deceleration?
In order to determine if a baby requires supplemental oxygen in the delivery room, we must place a pulse oximeter on (what extremity) to assess oxygen saturation.
What is the right hand/wrist?
The prevalence of this fetal position is increasing due to increased levels of inactivity among pregnant women--and increases the risk of a c-section.
What is occiput posterior?
Medication frequently used to mitigate the severity of a PPH-- but it is not a uterotonic.
What is Transexamic Acid (TXA)?
Magnesium sulfate is commonly used to prevent this complication in women with severe preeclampsia.
What is eclampsia?
This assessment tool, used to evaluate fetal heart rate tracings, employs specific criteria to classify the risk of adverse outcomes based on fetal heart patterns and guide intervention.
The frequency that epinephrine can be given. The two different routes that epinephrine can be given.
What is 3-5 mins and ETT/IV route?
This process reduces high-risk medication errors by having two nurses confirm the medication order, dose, route, lines, (including labels), and pump programs.
What is an independent double check?
The frequency with which blood loss should be quantified, documented, and communicated to the team during a PPH.
What is q 10 min?
This laboratory finding indicates kidney dysfunction and is a marker of severe preeclampsia.
What is an elevated creatinine of 1.1 mg/dL or greater?
This mechanism, involving the parasympathetic nervous system, causes transient decreases in fetal heart rate-- often associated with variable decelerations.
What are baroreceptors?
The acronym MR. SOPA details the following six steps taken for correcting ventilation.
What is mask adjustment, reposition head, suction mouth and nose, open mouth, pressure increase, and alternative airway?
This hormone potentiates the natural release oxytocin and can be promoted with lowering the lights.
What is melatonin?