ANC Flashcards
Return visits in ANC
0-28w: once every month
28-36w: twice every month
>36: once till labor
Decreasing no. Of ANC visits to 4 was associated with:
- Not increase in AE
- decreased satisfaction
pregnancy test results occur after
- urine
- blood:
Urine: 12-14d
Blood: 11d
From ovulation
What could give false positive urinary pregnancy test results
- Increase protein in the urine like in hematuira, IgM, proteinurea.
- disease increasing HCG like choriocarcinoma
- LH increasing disease
Risk of Down syndrome increases in patients aged:
35 or older
When to add +9 and when to subtract -3 from month for EDD
- jan
- feb
- march
Add 9 months
What is the naegler’s rule for EDD
LMP + 7d
+9m or -3m
Full duration of pregnancy is
280days
40weeks
What are the weeks for
- 1st trimester
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 1w to 13w+6d
- 14w to 28+6d
- > 29
Urine dipstick is done routinly in ANC to detect
- protein
- glucose
What are the indicators of gestational age:
Most accurate is US up to 13+6\7d
- fetal heart rate (10-12w)
- fetal movement (20w)
- Fundal height
If fundal height is at the level of
- umbilicus:
- symphysis pubis:
- xiphoid process:
What is the probable gestation age?
- 20wks
- 12wks
- 38 which is higher than 40 due to engagement.
Measurement of fundal height should be done:
Each visit
Physiological oversized uterus
- wrong dates
- twins
Pregnancy during period of amenorrhea (lactation\contraception) can cause:
(Small - large uterus)
Small
When to give women of Rh incompatibility (Anti-D) injection?
- Week 28
- 24hrs-72 post-delivery.
Anti-D given regardless of weeks is only in cases of:
- abortion
- miscarriage
- amniocentesis
- secretions
- trauma
What are the test to preform in the first visits:
- Ultrasound
- UA\UC
- Blood test: [CBC, blood type, RH, Ab coomb’s, FBG, sickle cell, titers (rubella\hep\syphlis) ]
Detection of asymptomatic bacteriurea should be at weeks …. to ……
12-16 weeks.
What are the infections that we screen for in the first visit
1- rubella & vericella 2- syphlis 3- HIV 4- chlymedia\gonorrhea 5- hepatitis b