Aaron: OB Flashcards
Polymicrobial, infection post C-section, what is the best abx course?
Clindamycin plus gentamicin
What is a prominent post birth infection risk?
C-section
Car accident
Uterine Tenderness
High amplitude contractions
What should I think about?
Abruptio Placenta
If a child does not have ADHD symptom relief after methylphenidate medications after two months, what should happen?
Switch to a different medication
Before starting methylphenidate, what are two things that must be done?
Cardiac history and physical exam, baseline weight
With a history of pre-eclampsia, what should be started between 12-14 weeks?
Aspirin, prophylatically
Woman under the age of 19, assuming no underlying risk factors are at an increased risk of what?
Pre-term birth
During pregnancy, what hormone level can be increased due to elevated estrogen?
TBG and T4 and T3
Advanced maternal age, over the 35 years old, what is a test that should be offered to all women?
Cell-free DNA fetal testing
Can you breast feed on methadone?
yes you can
If you take valproate during pregnancy, can you breast feed afterwards?
yes you can
Methotrexate is contraindicated in patients with what two diseases?
Renal Disease or Hepatic Disease, meds cannot be cleared quickly enough
Are GBS cultures done during labor?
When are GBS cultures done?
No
36-38 weeks
GBS unknown plus preterm delivery (<37 weeks), ruptured membranes for > 18 hours, intrapartum fever (intraamniotic infection), what should be given?
Antibiotics
Constant urinary dribbling, decreased perineum sensation (diabetic history), what is the most common cause?
Overflow Incontinence
Placenta Previa is painless vaginal bleeding after how many weeks?
20 weeks
Indomethacin is a uterine tocolytic that can be used when? How much time can it buy you?
< 32 weeks
48 hours
Woman that has had a mechanical valve replaced, what is the anticoagulation scheme for pregnancy?
First Trimester has LMWH use
Second and Third trimester use Warfarin
Just before birth, use LMWH
Unfractionated Heparin is cleared how?
Low Molecular Weight Heparin is cleared how?
Hepatically and Renally
LMWH is renally cleared, cannot use in bad renal patients
Baby with a cleft lip, what are the three things that are needed to make a surgical repair?
Reconstruction at 10 weeks, weight 10lbs, and 10 g of hemoglobin
Mammograms start at 50-74 and are how often?
Every 2 years
Mammograms start early if breast cancer has what in the family?
Breast Cancer occurs in 2 first degree family members
If a patient has bariatric surgery, how long should they wait to become pregnany?
1 year
What two antibiotics are contraindicated in 1st semester pregnancy?
Nitrofuratonin
TMP-SMX
What is the non-delusional belief that a woman is pregnant but she is not pregnant?
Pseudocyesis
What is an autoimmune inflammatory disease that can occur during pregnancy that is an antibody reaction to the basement membrane?
What is the best treatment?
pemphigoid gestations
Steroids
If a woman has intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, what is the lab value going to show?
Increase in bile acids
Are there any screening tests that are required for Tamoxifen when being used?
No, only evaluate if symptoms start
Constant urine leaking and decreased perineal sensation is code for what?
Overflow Incontinence
Patient has an elevated AFP, unsure about fetal abnormalities, what is the next test that should be ordered?
Fetal Ultrasound
If a patient has PPROM, what condition is concerning regarding the baby?
Umbilical Cord Prolapse
At 28 weeks, what is the a standard blood test that pregnant woman should have, assuming nothing obviously wrong?
CBC
Overflow incontinence has what anatomical problem underlying the patient?
Impaired Detrusor contractility
Urge Incontinence has what anatomical problem underlying the patient?
Sudden, overwhelming urge to urinate
Stress Incontinence has what anatomical problem underlying the patient?
Decreased Urethral Sphincter Tone and Urethral Hypermobility
Urge incontinence will say what in the question STEM?
Sudden, Overwhelming urge to urinate
Untreated appendicitis can lead to what complication?
pylephlebitis or infective portal vein thrombosis
Preterm babies at risk of early delivery before week 32 weeks, what should be given?
Preterm babies at risk of early delivery before week 34 weeks what should be given?
Magnesium, indomethacin, steroids
Corticosteroids and Nifedipine (fetal lung development), no benefit for babies at week 34-37 week
If pregnant, have an exophytic mass (looks like cervical cancer), HIV+ viral load is super high, do I biopsy/investigate cervical cancer lesion?
yes, investigate, because the patient is immunocompromised