Ob Gyn Flashcards
when do you get a Quantitative Beta hCG?
- diagnose and follow ectopic pregnancy
- to monitor trophoblastic disease
- to screen for fetal aneuploidy
When is the gestational sack visible by ultrasound?
Five weeks gestational age
What defines an embryo?
0 to 8 weeks
What defines a fetus?
8 weeks to delivery
What as an infant?
Delivery to one year
What is the term pregnancy?
37 weeks or later
What is a preterm pregnancy
20 to 36 weeks
What renal change occurs during pregnancy
Increased GFR ~50%, increased renal flow
How does blood pressure change during pregnancy
Decreases 10% by 34 weeks then normalizes
How does heart rate change during pregnancy
Gradually increases twenty percent
How does cardiac output change during pregnancy
Increases
How’s peripheral vascular resistance changing pregnancy
Decreases
How does peripheral venous distention change during pregnancy?
Progressively increasing
What is the effect of an increase title volume during pregnancy?
Create an increased CO2 gradient for the fetus for gas exchange
How does fibrinogen change during pregnancy?
Increases
What is the recommended folic acid supplementation during pregnancy
0.4 mg a day 4 mg a day if h/o neural tube defects in prior pregnancies
Rh negative when do you give Rhogam?
Week 28 and postpartum if the fetus is Rh positive
What drug: fetal renal tubular dysplasia and neonatal renal failure, oligohydramnios, IU GR, lack of cranial ossification
ACEis
What drugs: growth restriction before and after birth, mental retardation, mid facial hypoplasia, renal and cardiac defects
alcohol
What drug: virilization of female, advanced genital development in males
Androgens
What drugs: note to defects, fingernail hypoplasia, microcephaly, developmental delay, IUGR
Carbamazepine
What drugs: bowel atresia, congenital malformations of the heart, face and GU tract, microcephaly, IUGR, cerebral instructions
Cocaine
What drugs: clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina or cervix, vaginal adenosis, Amber melodies of the cervix and uterus or testes possible infertility
DES
What drug: increase spontaneous abortion rate, stillbirths
Lead