Perinatal Flashcards
Newborn Assessment Prenatal concern: -1- maternal health issues: -2- Retrieve history regarding: -3- Personally assess: -4-
- Xenobiotics (nicotine, caffeine, illicit drug use)
- blood sugar/pressure, infectious disease (herpes, HIV)
- fetal growth issues
- mother-child affect
Perinatal:
Assessment - history, Apgar, etc.
Assess intellectual disability risk: -1-, -2-, -3- and rationale
size of baby:
lbw: -4-
vlbw: -5-
elbw: -6-
Apgar: 0-2 points/5 sections
-7- (chart)
- placenta previa, abruption
- meconium
- forceps, vaccuum, NICU
- <2500 g
- <1500 g
- <1000 g
- Color
- blue/pale, peripheral cyanosis
- pink
HR: absent, <100, >100
Res: absent, weak cry, strong cry
MT: Limp, some flexing, active movement
NR: absent, grimace, cough/sneeze
Birth statistics:
most newborns: -1-
SGA “small for gestational age”
symmetric: -2-, often -6-; pathophys: intrauterine -7-, -8-
asymmetric (after 24 weeks): -3-; why? -9-, fetal -10-, altitude
LGA (large for gestational age): -4-, often -11-. Often due to -12-, could also be -13-, -14-, or sometimes large -15- babies
appropriate for GA “AGA”: -5-
- 20”; 7.5 lb
- all categories < 10th %ile
- only weight <10th %ile
- Wt >90th %ile
- 10th %ile < Wt < 90th %ile
- physiologic (small family, small baby)
- infection, maternal hypertension
- drug exposure, etc
- chronic maternal hypertension/preecclampsia
- heart disease, hemoglobinopathy
- 42+ weeks
- DM2 in mom
- bethwick-wiedemann syndrome (congenital)
- hydrops fetalis (universal edema)
- mothers make large
Neonatal vitals 0-2 months Temp: -1- HR: -2- RR: -3-
- 38C/100.4F or higher = fever
- 140 pulse
- 30-60 rpm
Central cyanosis: warm -1-, deep -2-; signifies -3-
Peripheral: -4- skin; just -5-
- skin
- blue nails
- an underlying problem
- cold/clammy
- needs heat
Perinatal history Type of delivery: -1- respiratory status: -2- cardiac status: -3- Color changes: -4-
- vag, c-section, forceps, vacuum?
- grunting, flaring?
- murmur?
- plethora (red)/jaundice/gray (low APGAR)
Milia: -1- to -2- with NO -3- OR -4-, can last -5-, but if they persist, concerning for -6-
Miliaria
> obstructed -7-: -8-; -9-
- pinpoint white papules
- nose and cheeks
- underlying red rash
- PUSTULES (erythema toxicum)
- a few weeks (to 2 months)
- genentic syndrome
- sweat glands:
- “prickly heat”
- pale, pink, flesh-colored
Erythema toxicum: -1- and -2-; starts -3-
Typically resolves -4-
- red blotches, white/yellow papules
- PUSTULES
- age 2-5 days
- 2nd week of life
Cafe-au-lait spots, assessment: -1-
Hallmark of -2-
- how many? How big? Macular
2. NF1
Junctional nevi: in -1-, concerning for -2- & -3-
Assessment considerations: -4-
- large number,
- tuberous sclerosis
- xeroderma pigmentosis
- location, size, description
Mongolian spots: -1-, often in the -2-, often -3-
Common among those of -4-
Long term prognosis: -5-
- grey-green discoloration
- lumbar-sacral area
- mistaken for BRUISING
- mediterranean, african heritage
- permanent, so DOCUMENT (but do fade some over time)
Port-wine stains -1-, or could indicate -2- (-3- in -4-)
Pathophys: -5-
- could be benign
- stirge-webber/glaucoma
- especially if located
- the eye, face
- compiled superficial/deep capillaries
Hemangiomas: appear -1-
last: -2-
fade: -3-
If found around the mouth or eye: -4-
- can appear anywhere
- up to 2 years
- from inside out, but never completely smooths
- send to derm (inderal to decrease size)
Primitive reflexes, main concern: -1-
Chart: when do they go extinct? -2-
- Symmetry
- Age in months - Reflex:
2: Sucking
2: Stepping/Placing
3: Tonic Neck
3-4: Moro
4: Rooting
5-6: Palmar grasp (Plantar is 12-24)
12 or walking: Babinski
Caput Succidenum: -1-
Cephalohematoma: -2- which -3-, result of -4-; high -5-
- Crosses Suture line (fluid under the skin)
- fluid under the skin
- doesn’t cross midline
- vacuum delivery
- BILI re:collecting blood
frontal bossing: -1-; common in -2-
- Microcephaly: -3-*
- Macrocephaly: -4-*; often -5-
- frontal cranium enlargement
- premies and rickets (food deserts)
- 2 SD < average HC (genetic diseases, T21)
- 2 SD > average HC (hydrocephalus)
- overriding sutures
Hair assessment in the newborn: -1-, -2-
- twirls/whirls/unruly (brain development issues)
2. coloring, tufting, white/depigmented forelock (congential conditions: deafness, delay, whartonburg syndrome)
Fontanel closure:
Anterior: by -1-
Posterior: by -2-
Wide fontanel/split sutures: seen in -3-
- 18 months
- 2 months of age (hypothyroidism if still open)
- premies, IUGR, hydrocephalus, down syndrome, hypothyroidism (posterior)
Red reflex
Assess for…
…black/white color/spots? (Retinal blastoma, cataracts)
Sclera: abnormal findings:
- 1-
- 2-
- 3-
- bluish (premie)
- deep blue (windex) - osteogenesis imperfecta hallmark
- brushfield spots (salt and pepper around irises, T21)