Substance Use Flashcards
What risks are associated w/ intranasal and IV drug use?
- HBV
- HCV
- HIV
- DVT
- thrombophlebitis
- endocarditis
What factors of substance use affect the fetus?
1) type of substance
2) timing of use during embyrogenesis and fetal development
3) duration and amount of substance
caffeine
- no evidence of teratogenicity
- may decrease Fe absorption –> anemia
What are risks associated w/ alcohol in early pregnancy?
- miscarriage
- embryopathy
- visible physical defects
What are risks associated w/ alcohol in later pregnancy?
- developmental disabilities
- cognitive disabilities
- behavioral disabilities
What demographic has the highest rate of late trimester alcohol consumption?
white, college-educated women >35yo
Describe fetal alcohol syndrome
most severe of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
- growth deficiency
- CNS dysfunction w/ developmental disability/brain damage
- characteristic facial dysmorphology
List 3 fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
1) fetal alcohol syndrome
2) partial fetal alcohol syndrome
3) alcohol-related birth defects
What are pregnancy risks associated w/ nicotine use?
- reduced fertility
- increased risk ectopic
- SAB
- reduced infant response to hypoxic events
What effect does nicotine have on placenta?
vasoconstriction –> compromised function
What demographic of people are more likely to smoke during pregnancy?
- <25yo
- unmarried
- Caucasian
- <12 years education
- low-income
- underweight
- unintended pregnancy
What neonatal risks are associated w/ nicotine use?
- cleft lip/palate
- musculoskeletal effects
- GI defects
- asthma
- atopic diseases
- otitis media
- SIDS
- neuro developmental delay
- reduced head circumference
- altered brain stem development
- altered lung structure
- cerebral palsy
What risks are associated w/ marijuana use?
- congenital defects
- neurobehavioral changes
- +/- childhood leukemia
- IUGR, small head circumference
What are risks associated w/ opiate use?
- IUGR
- placental insufficiency
- preeclampsia
- PROM
- PTB
- perinatal mortality
What effect does opiate use have on the neonate?
neonatal abstinence syndrome –> prolonged hospitalization