Small or Preterm Baby Flashcards
What is low birthweight?
What is low birthweight?
What is very low birthweight?
What is extremely low birthweight?
What is preterm?
What is very preterm?
What is extremely preterm?
What is small for gestational age?
-birthweight
What are the categories of causes of small for gestational age?
- Normal
- Maternal
- Foetal
- Placental
Foetal cause of SGA?
- Infections
- Major malformations
- Chromosoma
Placental causes of SGA?
- Mulitple preg
- poor implantation
- malformations
- placental insufficiency
What are the causes of preterm birth?
- Preterm labour / PROM
- Cervical incompetence
- Multiple pregnancies
- APH
- Uterine anomalies
- Indicated delivery
What are the broad consequences of being small/preterm?
- Thermal
- Nutritional / metabolic
- Respiratory
Immediate care of preterm infant?
- Breathing
- Temperature (36.8 +/- 0.3)
- Nutrition (measure BSLs)
- other routine care (cord, skin, vitamin K, family)
Cause of death
- HMD and complications
- Intraventricular haemorrhage
- Sepsis / necrotising enterocolitis
- Malformations and other lethal abnormalities
Cause of death 28-36w?
- Sepsis
- Malformations and other lethal abnormalities
Impairments of preterm infants?
- CP
- Blindness
- Deafness
- Developmental delay
What is very low birthweight?
What is extremely low birthweight?
What is preterm?
What is very preterm?
What is extremely preterm?
What is small for gestational age?
-birthweight
What are the categories of causes of small for gestational age?
- Normal
- Maternal
- Foetal
- Placental
Foetal cause of SGA?
- Infections
- Major malformations
- Chromosoma
Placental causes of SGA?
- Mulitple preg
- poor implantation
- malformations
- placental insufficiency
What are the causes of preterm birth?
- Preterm labour / PROM
- Cervical incompetence
- Multiple pregnancies
- APH
- Uterine anomalies
- Indicated delivery
What are the broad consequences of being small/preterm?
- Thermal
- Nutritional / metabolic
- Respiratory
Immediate care of preterm infant?
- Breathing
- Temperature (36.8 +/- 0.3)
- Nutrition (measure BSLs)
- other routine care (cord, skin, vitamin K, family)
Cause of death
- HMD and complications
- Intraventricular haemorrhage
- Sepsis / necrotising enterocolitis
- Malformations and other lethal abnormalities
Cause of death 28-36w?
- Sepsis
- Malformations and other lethal abnormalities
Impairments of preterm infants?
- CP
- Blindness
- Deafness
- Developmental delay