Common Osce Review Questions Flashcards
Active mgt of 3rd stage of labor
1) Oxytocin 10 IU IM(5IU each buttock)
2) Uterine massage
3) Early cord clamping
4) Controlled cord traction
X-ray features of osteomyelitis
S3 C3 I P
Sinus tract Sclerosis Sequestration Cloaca Cortical irregularity Cortical thickness Involucrum Periosteal elevation
Maternal mortality
Death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days after termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the site and duration of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its mgt and not from incidental or accidental causes.
Causes of maternal mortality
HITLA
Hemorrhage (APH,PPH) Infection (malaria,SCD) Toxemia (Pre eclampsia, eclampsia) Obstructed labor Unsafe abortion Anemia
Delays in maternal mortality
Phase 1: from the woman and family at home
Phase 2: delay in Distance and bad road to health facilities
Phase 3: delay in the hospital, poor health care, insufficient staff and equipment, incorrect treatment and delayed tx
Methods of induction of labor
1) Medical: Oxytocin titration, misoprostol and prostaglandin
2) Surgical: Artificial rupture of membrane(Arom), Arom + oxytocin titration, extra-amniotic saline infusion.
Methods of Cervical ripening
1) trans-cervical extra amniotic foleys catheter
2) misoprostol
3) other prostaglandin analogue
4) oxytocin
5) estradiol/ estrogen
6) insertion of luminaria tents/ dilapan tru the cervix
7) membrane stripping/sweeping
8) castor oil
9) relaxin gel
Cardinal movements of labor
ED FIERES
Engagement Descent Flexion Internal rotation Extension Restitution External rotation Shoulder rotation and delivery of baby.
Specific symptoms and tx of BV
- Thin grayish white vaginal discharge
- fishy vaginal smell especially after coitus and menstruation
- burning while urinating
- vag itchy
Treatment
1)Oral metronidazole 500mg BID for 7days for non pregnant women
2) clindamycin gel 2% intravaginally for 7days. At bed time
Characterise specific symptoms and tx for gonorrhoea
Mild in women some asymptomatic
-mucopurulent vag discharge
Treatment
Procaine penicillin, strep and genta IM for penicillin allergy
Risk factors of cervical cancer
- HPV infection
- herpes
- Early coitarche
- race (blacks and Caucasian )
- in utero diethly stilbesterol
- Advanced age
- Immunodeficiency
- Lack of regular screening
- pervious hx of cervical displasia
- family hx of cervical cancer
Treatment of cervical cancer
1) surgery alone (for stage 1-2a)
2) radialology alone (advanced lesions of stage 1a)
3) combined
4) chemotherapy
Pap smear
Papanicoliau test, developed 1940’s by georgios papanicoliau.
Involves: exfoliating from transformation zone if the cervix, to enable examination of the cells to detect pre cancerous or cancerous lesions.
Instrument: cervical brush
Recommended every 3yrs in women age 21-65, or earlier if the woman has been sexually active in earlier yrs.
Age 30-65 hpv every 5yrs
Symptoms of cervical cancer
Early stage: asymptomatic, or postcoital, post menopausal intermentraul vaginal bleeding
Advanced stage: pain(infiltration to sacral plexus) Diarrhea, constipation, urine and fecal incontinence, lymphedema
Terminal: oliguria, anuria, weight loss,
Characterise candidiasis
Whitish odourless vag discharge
Itchiness and painful sex
Tx : fluconazole