Unit I Labor and Delivery Complications

Preeclampsia defined?

Diagnostic criteria for preeclampsia include?

Risk factors for preeclampsia include?

HELLP SYNDROME is a laboratory diagnosis for a variant of preeclampsia that involves hepatic dysfunction characterized by?

Most women with HELLP Syndrome will report what symptoms?

What race does HELLP Syndrome occur more frequently in?

The rate of preterm birth in women with HELLP Syndrome is approximately?

The pathophysiologic changes of HELLP Syndrome occur as a result of?

Risk factors for HELLP Syndrome?

Outcomes for HELLP Syndrome associated w/ an increased risk for maternal death & adverse perinatal outcomes are?

Eclampsia defined?

Eclampsia signs and symptoms?

Immediate Care for Tonic-Clonic convulsions include?

Tonic contractions of all body muscles (seen as arms flexed, hands clenched, legs inverted) precedes the tonic-clonic convulsion, what takes place during this stage?

Nursing actions after tonic-clonic convulsions are?

The drug of choice for treating eclamptic seizures and preventing them is?

During the tonic-clonic convulsion the uterus becomes?

The route of birth (induction of labor versus cesarean birth) depends on?

The four most common types of hypertensive disorders occurring in pregnancy are?

Who is more likely to have a pregnancy complicated by chronic HTN than women of other races or ethnicities?

Women who are hypertensive should be encouraged to make lifestyle changes before conception, such as?

Women who are high risk for Hypertension are managed with antihypertensive medication & frequent assessment of maternal & fetal well-being. What is this medication called?

Hypertensive women after giving birth should be monitored closely for complications such as?

A pregnancy that ends as a result of natural causes before 20 weeks of gestation?

Incidence & Etiology of miscarriage include?

Late miscarriage, occurs between?

Late miscarriage usually results from maternal causes such as?

Different types of miscarriages are considered?

What type of miscarriage will NOT lead to infection?

Clinical manifestations of miscarriages are?

Miscarriages between 6 & 12 weeks cause what?

A surgical procedure In which the cervix is dilated & suction curette is inserted to scrape the uterine walls and remove uterine contents is called?

Ectopic pregnancy is defined as?

Incidence & Etiology of Ectopic pregnancy?

Clinical manifestations of Ectopic Pregnancy?

Diagnosis for Ectopic pregnancy?

Medical management for Ectopic pregnancy?

Normal non-pregnant hemoglobin, hematocrit levels are 12-16 g/dL. If the level has INCREASED, do you suspect preeclampsia or HELLP Syndrome?

Normal non-pregnant hemoglobin, hematocrit levels are 12-16 g/dL. If the level has DECREASED, do you suspect preeclampsia or HELLP Syndrome?

Normal creatinine levels are 0.5-1.1 mg/dL, If these levels are greater than 1.1 mg/dL, would you suspect preeclampsia or HELLP?

Normal lab values for Platelets are 150,000-400,000/mm3, for a pregnant woman showing signs of preeclampsia and HELPP syndrome, what will the platelet level be decreased to?

Normal uric acid lab value is 2 - 6.6 mg/dL, if the patient has preeclampsia, what will the lab value be?

Normal uric acid lab value is 2 - 6.6 mg/dL, if the patient has HELLP, what will the lab value be?

What maternal and fetal assessment for lab evaluations for women with gestational hypertension and preeclampsia?

Sign and symptoms of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia with severe features?

Gestational hypertension and preeclampsia with mild signs and symptoms?

Hyperemesis Garvidarum

What percentage does hyperemesis garvidarum affect pregnant women?

Hyperemesis Garvidarum when severe will cause?

A factor related to the current pregnancy that makes a woman more likely to develop hyperemesis garvidarum?

Clinical manifestations of hyperemesis garvidarum?

Factors related to hyperemesis garvidarum?

Diet for hyperemesis garvidarum include?

spotting of blood with the cervix closed, mild uterine cramping?

moderate to heavy amount of bleeding with an open cervix, tissue may be present with bleeding?

cervix is closed after all products of conception were expelled, slight bleeding, mild uterine cramping

refers to a pregnancy in which the fetus has died but the products of conception remain in utero for days, weeks or even months

Three or more spontaneous pregnancy losses before 20 weeks of gestation?

What medication is given to prevent hemorrhage?

Discharge teaching for a woman after early miscarriage?

Placenta Previa defined?

Placenta Previa manifestations?

Most women with Placenta Previa give birth?

Management of Placenta Previa is determined by?

Grade 1, mild separation
Placental Abruption

Grade 2, moderate separation
Placental Abruption

Grade 3, severe separation
Placental Abruption

Placenta Previa signs and symptoms?