Chapter 26 Flashcards
Sociodemographic risk factors
- Arise from mother and her family
- Lack of prenatal care, low income, marital status, and ethnicity
Environmental risk factors
- Hazards in workplace and woman’s general environment
- May include chemicals, anesthetic gases, and radiation
Psychosocial risk factors
- Maternal behaviors and adverse lifestyles that have a negative effect on health of mother or fetus
- May include emotional distress and disturbed interpersonal relationships
- Inadequate social support
- Unsafe cultural practices
Biophysical risk factors
-Originates with the mother or the fetus
-May affect development and functioning of both
-Genetic disorders, nutritional and general health status, and medical or obstetric-related illnesses
(supposed to wait one year before becoming pregnant again)
Polyhydramnios -
(excessive amniotic fluid)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Fetal congenital anomalies
Intrauterine growth restriction: maternal causes
Hypertensive disorders (had previously or developed) Diabetes (had previously or developed) Chronic renal disease Thrombophilia Cyanotic heart disease Poor weight gain Smoking, alcohol, illicit drug use Multiple gestation
Intrauterine growth restriction: fetoplacental
Chromosomal abnormalities Congenital malformations Intrauterine infection Genetic syndromes (trisomy 13 and trisomy 18) Abnormal placental development
Oligohydramnios -
(too little amniotic fluid)
- Renal agenesis (Potter syndrome) - lack of one or both kidneys
- Premature rupture of membranes - (give vent. stimulates surfactant production)
- Prolonged pregnancy
- Uteroplacental insufficiency
- Maternal hypertensive disorders - plasma stays with mom and doesn’t go to baby
Chromosomal abnormalities
(enough chromosome material but in the wrong place)
Maternal age of 35 years or older
Balanced translocation (maternal or paternal)
reasons for prenatal testing
-Detect congenital anomalies
-Evaluate the condition of the fetus
Many times will not be done unless it is felt that the fetus may be in distress
assessment information
- Gravida, para,gestation
- Medical and OB problems
- Client knowledge of why testing is being done and what it indicates
- Emotional response to testing
- Couple’s expectations of the diagnostic tests
Nursing Role in AntepartalAssessment for Risk
-Educator
-Support person - give positive reassurance never say will be 100% okay
-In many settings nurses perform:
__NSTs- nonstress tests
__CSTs- contraction stress test
__BPPs- biophysical profiles
Levels of ultrasonography
- Abdominal
- Transvaginal - probe up vagina, recommended for obese women
Indications for use of ultrasonography
Fetal heart activity (6-7 wks)
Gestational age (14-22 wks)
Fetal growth
Fetal anatomy
Ultrasonography
-High frequency sound waves
-Able to detect: Heartbeat, fetal breathing and body movement
-Can be used in any trimester but the procedure and the reasons for its use vary for each trimester
(babies always exchange O2 and CO2 why lungs move)
Ultrasonography indications for use
- Fetal genetic disorders and physical anomalies
- Placental position and function
- Adjunct to other invasive tests
Fetal well-being -
- Doppler blood flow analysis
- Amniotic fluid volume (low levels of amniotic fluid near term then baby most likely been stressed
- Biophysical profile (BPP)
Ultrasonography advantages -
clear visualization, safe, noninvasive, comfortable, and results immediately
Ultrasonography disadvantages -
cost $200- $1000
1st trimester ultrasound -
- Up to 12 weeks and can be transvaginal
- Fetal movement and heartbeat visible from week 8
- Gestational sac can be seen by 6th week
- Crown-rump length will give gestational age estimation
- Guide insertion of needle for villus sampling
- Position of cervix, uterus and placenta