INTRAPARTUM
COMPLICATIONS
INTERVENTIONS
WHAT'S THIS
MISCELLANEOUS
100

Patient is receiving magnesium sulfate and has absent deep tendon reflexes. 

What is Magnesium sulfate toxicity. ?

100

36 week gestation with severe headache, visual disturbances, and epigastric pain. 

What is Eclampisa?

100

Priority action for a patient with a post partum hemorrhage 

What is fundal massage?

100

Present in some women, is part of their normal flora, high neonatal mortality rate, if not treated.

What is Group Beta Streptococcus (GBS)?

100

Likely to occur I if woman has had previous c=sections or surgery on her uterus

What is Uterine Rupture?

200

28 weeks Gestation. Most important assessment 

What is Fundal Height ?

200
Drug use, trauma, underlying medical conditions may cause this; affects the fetus with 50% separated.
What is abruption Placentae?
200

When caring for a baby who is jaundice, the priority nursing action is. 

What is frequent feedings?

200
the unexpected delivery of the new born, usually born out of asepsis
What is Precipitous delivery?
200

A fertilized Ovum implanted outside the uterine cavity

What is Ectopic pregnancy?

300

Priority nursing action for s mother receiving oxytocin. 

What is monitor fetal heart rate. 

300
Is opening of the cervix when the growing fetus presses against it
What is incompetent cervix?
300

Done to stimulate contractions, prostaglandin secretions, and labor, or to permit internal fetal monitoring if needed

What is Amniotomy or Artificial Rupture of membrane (AROM)?

300

During the second stage of labor the nurse must?

Have the patient push?

300

Nursing priority for a small for gestational age infant 

What is monitor blood sugars?

400

1ST stage

What stage is dilation & effacement?

400
clot formation and acticoagulation occurring simultaneously throughout the body in the mother.
What is DIC? (Disseminated intravascular coagulation)
400

to prevent the manufacture of anti-bodies in Rh incompatibility cases, usually given to women at 28 weeks of gestation and within 72 hours after birth

What is RHo-D immune globulin (aka RhoGAm)?

400
Diverts most blood rom the pulmonary artery into the aorta. Blood from the RV joins that from the LV.
What is Ductus Arteriosus?
400

Braxton Hicks contractions, Increased vaginal discharge, Bloody show, ROM, energy spurt, weight loss

What are signs of Impending Labor?

500

Stable fetal HR between 110-160, with moderate variability present, accelerations increase more than 15 beats/min lasting no more than 30 seconds.

What is reassuring pattern?

500
high levels are associated with spina bifida, anencephaly, astroschisis; low levels are associated with chromosome abnormalities or gestational trophoblastic disease
What is Alpha-fetoprotein testing?
500

5 minute old newborn with a weak cry, heart rate of 110, some flexion of the extremities, pink body with blue extremities, and a grimace response to stimulation 

What is Apgar score of 5?

500

Feeling overwhelmed, mood swings, and difficulty sleeping post partum. 

What is post partum depression?

500

A parasite that may be acquired by handling raw meat, cook meat thoroughly, esp cat litter

What is Toxoplasmosis?