Intrapartum Meds
This score determines if a cervix is "favorable" or "unfavorable" for induction.
What is Bishops score?
The role of this hormone is specifically to trigger milk production.
What is prolactin?
This "T" is the most common cause of PPH and involves a boggy uterus.
What is "tone" or "atony"?
This is a "good" APGAR score.
What is "7 or greater"?
A baby weighing less than 10th percentile is called what.
What is SGA or small for gestational age?
List at least two nursing interventions for Tachysystole.
What is maternal position change, LR fluid bolus, turn off Pitocin, and/or give Terbutaline?
This term describes the expected return of the uterus to its pre-pregnancy state.
What is uterine involution?
This PPH medication is contraindicated for patients with high blood pressure.
What is methergine?
This is the term for the newborn's "conehead" look immediately after birth.
What is molding?
A baby's length is 18.5 inches. Convert that to centimeters (cm). You may round to the nearest whole number.
What is 47 cm?
This is why there is a timing concern for giving IV analgesia to a laboring mother.
What is newborn respiratory depression?
This is the timeframe for postpartum RhoGAM administration.
What is within 72 hours after delivery?
This "T" most often is the underlying cause of delayed (late) PPH.
What is "tissue" or "retained tissue"?
The reflex that looks like the baby is startled.
What is the moro reflex?
An infant's weight at 24 hours old is down 10% from birth. State your next step.
What is tell the provider?
The implications for a mother who tests positive for GBS during pregnancy.
What is IV antibiotics during labor?
A condition where a mother feels "let down" during the first two weeks after birth.
What is the "baby blues" or "postpartum blues"?
This PPH medication is given rectally.
What is misoprostol (Cytotec)?
A pooling of blood in the fetal head often caused by birth trauma.
What is cephalohematoma?
A baby weighs 3,367g. Convert that to pounds (lbs). You may round to the nearest whole number.
What is 8 pounds?
List one or more s/sy of Chorioamnionitis during labor.
A dangerous postpartum psychological condition that requires emergency intervention.
What is postpartum psychosis?
List at least two s/sy of endometritis.
What are foul-smelling lochia, fever, chills, malaise, uterine palpation, and/or abdominal pain?
The first fetal circulation duct to close after birth.
What is the foramen ovale?
State the full formula for calculating newborn weight loss.
What is birth weight minus current weight divided by birth weight times 100?