Ch 20 Nursing management of pregnancy at risk, selected health conditions, and vulnerable populations

Question 1

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS

Answer 1

A progressive debilitating disease, that suppresses cellular immunity, predisposing the infected person to opportunistic infections and malignancies

Question 2

Adolescence

Answer 2

 Lasts from the onset of puberty to the cessation of physical growth, roughly from 11 to 19 years of age

Question 3

Anemia

Answer 3

A reduction in red blood cell volume, as measured by hematocrit Hct or a decrease in the concentration of hemoglobin in the peripheral blood

Question 4

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder FASD

Answer 4

This disorder includes the full range of birth defects, such as structural Anomalies and behavioral and neurocognitive disabilities, caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol

Question 5

Gestational, diabetes, mellitus

Answer 5

Glucose intolerance with its onset during pregnancy, usually diagnosed in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, that was not clearly overt Prior to gestation

Question 6

Glycosylated hemoglobin HbA1c

Answer 6

Measurement of the average glucose levels during the past 100 to 120 days

Question 7

Human immunodeficiency virus HIV

Answer 7

Is a chronic infection caused by the retrovirus HIV infection of T cells that expresses CD4 receptors, causing immuno deficiency

Question 8

Multiple sclerosis, MS

Answer 8

A chronic inflammatory, demyelinating autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system

Question 9

Neonatal abstinence syndrome, NAS

Answer 9

Collection of symptoms that may include irritability, hypertonicity, jitteriness, fever, excessive and often high-pitched cry, vomiting, diarrhea, feeding disturbances, respiratory distress, disturb sleeping, excessive, sneezing, and yawning, nasal stuffiness, sweating, fever, poor, sucking, tremors and seizures

Question 10

Perinatal drug abuse

Answer 10

Includes the use of alcohol and other drugs by pregnant women

Question 11

Pica

Answer 11

Consuming nonfood, substances

Question 12

Pre-gestational diabetes

Answer 12

Includes women with type one or type, two disease and gestational diabetes, which develops during pregnancy

Question 13

Rheumatoid arthritis, RA

Answer 13

Characterized by joint, inflammation and progressive disability, and is one of the most common chronic autoimmune disorders

Question 14

Systematic lupus eryematosus SLE

Answer 14

A chronic relapsing autoimmune disease of the connective tissues that can affect various organs such as the skin, joints, kidneys, and serosal membranes

Question 15

Tetrogen

Answer 15

A substance known to be toxic to human development

Question 16

Type one diabetes

Answer 16

Absolute insulin deficiency due to autoimmune beta cell destruction 

Question 17

Type two diabetes

Answer 17

Insulin resistance or deficiency due to a progressive loss of better cell insulin secretion frequently on the background of insulin resistance

Question 18

Hyperglycemia in pregnancy
First prenatal visit

Answer 18

Fasting <126 mg/dL
HbA1c < 7%
Random < 200 mg/dL

Question 19

Hyperglycemia in pregnancy
24-28 weeks

Answer 19

Fasting < 95 mg/dL
75 g OGTT 1 hour > 180 mg/dL
75 g OGTT 2 hour > 153 mg/dL