The document contains summaries of different topics related to labor and delivery including questions to ask a mother in labor, risks of ruptured membranes and placenta accreta, care for anencephaly, administering IV narcotics during labor, signs of transition phase, and managing shoulder dystocia.
The document contains summaries of different topics related to labor and delivery including questions to ask a mother in labor, risks of ruptured membranes and placenta accreta, care for anencephaly, administering IV narcotics during labor, signs of transition phase, and managing shoulder dystocia.
The document contains summaries of different topics related to labor and delivery including questions to ask a mother in labor, risks of ruptured membranes and placenta accreta, care for anencephaly, administering IV narcotics during labor, signs of transition phase, and managing shoulder dystocia.
The document contains summaries of different topics related to labor and delivery including questions to ask a mother in labor, risks of ruptured membranes and placenta accreta, care for anencephaly, administering IV narcotics during labor, signs of transition phase, and managing shoulder dystocia.
Things to ask mother in ED that is actively in labour:
-do u take meds/drugs -how many babies are in there -what colour fluid when ur water broke -when is your due date
Maternal & Newborn Health - Labor/Delivery
QId: 31814
Presence of ruptured membranes: sterile gloves to prevent infection
Maternal & Newborn Health - Labor/Delivery
QId: 32843
Placenta accreta: condition of abnormal placental adherence, myometrium instead of endometrium
-need C section -risk of hemorrhaging
Maternal & Newborn Health - Labor/Delivery
QId: 33411
Anencephaly: baby born without brain, will not live, provide comfort care to baby (skin to skin, oxygen) and help with grieving process
Maternal & Newborn Health - Labor/Delivery
QId: 35195
When giving IV narcotics during labour: Give med slowly during peak of next contraction to avoid fetal respiratory depression.
Maternal & Newborn Health - Labor/Delivery
QId: 35291
Mother feeling like need to have BM and vomitting: transition phase (8cm dilated, 100% effaced)
Maternal & Newborn Health - Labor/Delivery
QId: 38450
Shoulder dystocia: -request additional assistance from nurses -flex clients leg back against stomach and apply downward pressure above the symphysis pubis -document when fetal head born
