OB/Gyn Flashcards
Chadwhick’s sign
Bluish/ purple vagina/cervix
Chandelier sign
Cervical motion tenderness, seen with PID
McDonald’s sign
Uterus is flexible at uterocervical junction at 7-8 weeks
Hegar’s sign or Goodell’s
softening of the cervix
Antibiotics to avoid in pregnancy
Floroquinolones
When to administer Rhogam
28 weeks gestation in Rh- mom abortion ectopic pregnancy invasive procedure: AVS, CVS Hydatidiform mole trauma cephalic version (breech) antepartum hemorrhage
Maternal Serum Alpha Fetal Protien in down syndrome
Levels will be LOW
Fundal Height at 20 weeks
umbilicus
Braxton Hicks contractions
Contractions without a change in cervical dilation or effacement
Fetal Heart tones
Variable decelerations : Cord compression
Early decelerations: Head compression
Accelerations: Ok
Late decelerations: Placental insufficiency
*WANT variable acclerations
Fibroadenoma
Seen in young females (25)
rubbery, painless mobile mass that does not change with the menstrural cycle like a fibrocystic mass will
Mastitis
Pain and swelling of breast usually after breast feeding
from STAPH aureus
treat with Dicloxacillin or Keflex, continue breast feeding while on antibiotics
Spontaneous abortion types (must occur before 20 weeks or else its a still birth)
Threatened: Os closed, No products passed TX: bed rest 1-2 days
Inevitable: Os Open, No products passed
Incomplete: Os Open, Some products passed
Complete: Os Closed, Products have passed
Missed: Os Closed, no pregnancy developed
Ectopic pregnancy labs
Beta Hcg will be lower than expected for normal pregnancy (don’t get doubling like with normal pregnancy)
Hcg of 6500 with empty uterine cavity on US is diagnostic, Laparoscopy is definitive
Ectopic pregnancy treatment
Methotrexate in STABLE patient
if hemodynamically unstable surgical management is needed with blood type and cross (only tx if ruptured ectopic pregnancy)
Hydatidiform Mole
benign neoplasm of chorion s/s: vaginal bleeding, enlarged uterus, pelvic pain B-hCg is EXTREMELY high! above 40,000 us shows snowy uterus treat: D&C
Choriocarcinoma
Highly malignant gestasional trophoblastic disease
PAINLESS bleeding in 3rd trimester
Placenta Previa
NO vaginal or speculum exam
Risk factors for placental abruption
Trauma, cocaine, smoking, previous abruption
IS PAINFUL