Pre/clampsia

Question 0

Symptoms?

Answer 0

GIT

• RUQ pain
• N + V
• HELLP -> epigastric and epistaxis

GENITOURINARY
- oedema in face, hands and legs

CNS

• headache
• blurred vision
• clonus, hyperreflexia (HELLP)

Foetus
- IUGR

Question 1

RF?

Answer 1

Previous pre-clampsia
Obstetric 
- new paternity 
- multiparity
- multiple gestation 
Mother was IUGR baby

Question 2

How do you assess risk of eclampsia?

Answer 2

Blurred vision
Clonus
Reflexes

Question 3

How do you diagnose pre-eclampsia?

Answer 3

Systolic above 140 or diastolic above 90

AND 1 other organ involvement, including placenta