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| Estimated Date of Delivery OR Estimated Date of Confinement |
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| Gravida (# of pregnancies)
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Abortion (spontaneous (SAB), terapeutic (TAB;VIP;EAB) )
living |
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| Gravida-number of pregnancies
Para-number of deliveries |
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| Syphilis test. Expressed in + or - |
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| Group beta strep. Expressed in positive or negative. If positive, a pregnant woman should come to the hospital as soon as her water breaks to start on antibiotics to prevent the baby from contracting a very serious infection.
You need to give 2 doeses of antibiotic (usually pennecillin, if not allergic) 4 hours apart for the medicine to be effective |
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| AFP/MSAFP/ERA or "quad screen" |
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| alpha-fetoprotein
Test taken at 16-18 weeks gestation to determine risk for neural tube defects (increase AFP), fetal abdominal wall defects (increased AFP); Down's syndrome (decrease in AFP), Edward's Syndrome (trisomy 18-decreased AFP); Fetal demise (decreased AFP) |
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| Glucose tolerance test
Taken by pregnant women if the GLT indicates that gestational diabetes might be present.
Three days of unrestricted diet followed by an overnight fast. Fasting level drawn; 100g glucose load given, and levels are drawn at 1, 2, and 3 hours. 2 abnormal readings=gestational diabetes
Norms: Fasting 105; One hr 190; Two hour 165; Three hour 145 |
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| Glucose loading test. An initial screening for gestational diabetes.
50g oral glucose load given followed by testing 1 hr later. (Tell them not to eat a bunch of junk right before the test)
Normal levels, <140, if abnormal follow up with GTT |
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| Gestational Diabetes Mellitus |
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| Fully and Pushing or fully dialated |
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| artificial rupture of membranes |
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| spontaneuous rupture of membranes |
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| premature (before labor begins) rupture of membranes |
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| preterm (before 32 weeks) premature (before labor) rupture of membranes |
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| low transerse cesarian section |
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| Vaginal birth after cesarian |
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| normal spontaneuos vaginal delivery |
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| small for gestational age |
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| large for gestational age |
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| Score given to a baby at 1 and 5 minutes (more, if the score is poor). A poor score is less than 6. The scale depends on tone, heart rate, reflexes and color |
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| breasts, uterus, bowels, bladder, lochia (vaginal bleeding) episiotomy (lascerations), homan's sign, emotions. |
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| a woman who has had 2 or more pregnancies |
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| a woman who has never been pregnant |
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| a woman who has not completed a pregnancy wit a fetus or fetuses who have reached the stage of fetal viability |
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| the number of pregancies in which the fetus or fetuses have reached viability when they are born, not the number of fetuses born. Whter tehf etus is born alive or is stillborn after viability has been reach does not affect parity |
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| a pregnancy that goes beyond 42 weeks of gestation |
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| a pregnancy that has reached 20 weeks of gestation but before completion of 37 weeks of gestation |
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| a woman who is pregnant for the first time |
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| a woman who has completed one pregnancy with a fetus or fetuses who have reached the stage of fetal viability |
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| a preganancy from the beginning of week 38 of gestation to the end of week 42 of gestation |
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| capacity to live outside the uterus; about 22 to 24 weeks since LMP, or fetal weight greater than 500g |
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| presumptive signs of pregnancy |
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| Those felt by the woman such as amenorrhea, fatige, N/V and breast changes |
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| probable signs of pregnancy |
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| those changes observed by the examiner such as hegar sign, ballottment, and pregnancy tests |
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| positive signs of pregnancy |
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| signs only attributable to the presence of the fetus such as hearing fetal heart tones, visualization of the fetus, and palpating fetal movements |
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| postpartum tubal ligation |
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| interuterine pressure catheter (shows how strong contractions are) |
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| cephalopathic disproportion |
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| Thiness of the cervex. Expressed as a percentage. 100% means that it's paper thin.
Can also say long/thick, if there is not very much effacement |
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| Where the baby's head is located in the pelvis. Goes from - to 0 (head is at the level of the ischial spine of the pelvis) to + |
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| Meconium stained fluid (green or yellow colored membranes) |
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| Intrauterine growth restriction. Means that the "placenta sucks",ie, there's been a decrease in fetal growth rate |
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| Montevideo units
Montevideo units (MVUs) refer to the strength of contractions in mm of mercury multiplied by the frequency per 10 minutes as measured by intrauterine pressure transducer.
The uterine contraction pattern must repeat every 2-3 minutes.
The uterine contractile force produced must exceed 200 MVUs/10 min for active labor to be considered adequate. For example, 3 contractions in 10 minutes that each reach a peak of 60 mm Hg are 60 X 3 = 180 MVUs. |
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| Late decelerations are transitory decreases in heart rate caused by uteroplacental insufficiency, a compromised blood flow to the baby that does not deliver the amount of oxygen needed to withstand the stress of labor.
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The late deceleration begins after the onset of the peak or middle of the contraction and ends after the contraction.
A late deceleration begins during or after a contraction and has not recovered by the time that the contraction has ended. A late deceleration indicates decreased blood flow during uterine contraction. Note: Persistent late decelerations are ominous, especially if the decelerations are associated with loss of short-term variability. |
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| Oxytocin Challenge test. Usually see "OCT+"
The Oxytocin Challenge Test (OCT) or stress test is done at near full term pregnancy to determine how your baby deals with the stress of contractions. Sometimes this is done to determine the health of your baby and others to determine if your baby can handle labor.
The test returns positive if there are noticeable decelerations of the heart rate during over half of the contractions. |
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| Class of airway. I-no edema/perfect airway. (Almost never seen with pregnant women b/c they're almost always a little edamatous) |
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