QUIZ 2: NURSING CARE OF A FAMILY EXPERIENCING A PREGNANCY COMPLICATION FROM A PREEXISTING OR NEWLY ACQUIRED ILLNESS Flashcards

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A suddenly developing pathologic condition in a patient, due to an accidentt or disease, which requires urgent medical or surgical therapeutic intervention.

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OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY

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Hyperdynamic, hypervolemic, maternal circulation
Cardiac output increases by 50%, blood volume by 45% (peak at 32- 34 weeks)
30% loss of fluid may be tolerated without tachycardia

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PREGNANCY CHANGES

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___complicates only 1% of pregnancies but accounts for 5% of maternal deaths.

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HIGH-RISK PREGNANCY: CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

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Occurs in conditions such as mitral stenosis, mitral insufficiency, and aortic coarctation

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LEFT-SIDED HEART FAILURE

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to allow fluid to settle to the bottom of the woman’s lungs and free spaces for gas exchange

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Orthopnea

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sudden waking at night due to shortness of breath

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Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea

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Occurs when the output of the right ventricle is less than the blood volume received by the right atrium from the vena cava

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RIGHT-SIDED HEART FAILURE

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Is an endocrine disorder in which the pancreas cannot produce adequate insulin to regulate body glucose levels

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A WOMAN WITH DIABETES MELITUS

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____ during pregnancy-including type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes-can negatively affect the health of women and their babies.

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Diabetes

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___ is a rare condition in young adults and especially in pregnancy, because women with symptoms of untreated this are often anovulatory and unable to conceive

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Hypothyroidism

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____Is the most common anemia of pregnancy, complicating as many as 15% to 25% of all pregnancies.

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Iron- deficiency anemia

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____ necessary for the normal formation of RBCs in the mother as well as being associated with preventing neural defects in the fetus.

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Folic acid, or folacin, one of B vitamins,

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___ is a recessively inherited hemolytic anemia caused by an abnormal amino acid in the beta chain of hemoglobin

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Sickle cell anemia

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_____ (common cold) tends to be more severe during pregnancy than at other times because during pregnancy, estrogen stimulation normally causes some degree of nasal congestion.

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Acute nasopharyngitis

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____ is caused by a virus, identified as type A, B, or C. The disease spreads in epidemic form and is accompanied by high fever, extreme prostration, aching pains in the back and extremities, and generally a sore, raw throat.

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Influenza

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is the bacterial or viral invasion of lung tissue by pathogens such as S. pneumoniae

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Pneumonia

17
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____ during pregnancy creates such an acute illness that it is associated with high incidences of spontaneous miscarriage, preterm birth, and intrauterine growth restriction.

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SARS

18
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____ is a disorder marked by reversible airflow obstruction, airway hyperreactivity, and airway inflammation

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Asthma

19
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With ____, lung tissue is invaded by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an acid-fast bacillus.

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tuberculosis

20
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__ is constriction of the airway associated most often with long-term cigarette smoking

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COPD