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Week 7 - Male/Female Genatalia, Rectum, Prostate, Pregnancy Flashcards

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Vaginal discharge may be caused by….

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  1. Candida
  2. Bacterial vaginosis
  3. Trichomonas vaginalis
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Mucopurulent discharge from the cervix can be caused by….

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  1. Chlamydyia trachomatis
  2. Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  3. Herpes simplex
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What should you do when a breast lump is reported?

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  • Identify precise location
  • How long has it been present
  • History of trauma
  • Tender
  • Change in size or variation with menstrual cycle
  • Change in breast contour, dimpling, swelling, puckering of skin on breastS?
  • Changes in nipple –> skin changes, itchiness, redness, flaking
  • Family history of breast cancer
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Components of a breast exam - Woman

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  • Inspect the breasts in four views: arms at sides, arms over head, arms pressed against hips, and leaning forward (skin appearance, size, symmetry, contour, nipple characteristics).
  • Palpate the breasts (consistency, tenderness, nodules, nipple for color, consistency, and quantity of any discharge).
  • Inspect the axillae (rash, irritation, infection, unusual pigmentation).
  • Palpate the axillary nodes (size, shape, delimitation, mobility, consistency, and any tenderness).
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Components of a breast exam - Man

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  • Inspect the nipple and areola (nodules, swelling, ulceration).
  • Palpate the areola and breast tissue (nodules).
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When doing a breast exam what should you look for?

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  • Consistency of tissues
  • Tenderness
  • Nodules
  • Location (clock or quadrants)
  • Size (cm)
  • Shape – round/cystic, disc like, irregular
  • Consistency – soft, firm, hard
  • Delimitation – well circumscribed or not
  • Tenderness
  • Mobility
  • Hard, irregular poorly circumscribed nodules fixed to the skin or underlying tissues strongly suggest cancer
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What to look for when palpating the nipples?

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  • Thickening of nipple and loss of elasticity suggest cancer
  • Bloody discharge –> cancer
  • Clear, serous, green, black or non-bloody discharge are usually benign
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What does assessment of the axillae involve?

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Inspection
- Rash, irritation, infection, unusual pigmentation

Palpation
- Left axilla (use right hand and vice versa)
- Large nodes, firm, hard, matted together or fixed to skin suggest malignancy

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Gynecomastia

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Benign breast enlargement in men. Caused by increased estrogen, decreased testosterone and medication side effects

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Anatomy of the breast

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Mammary gland lobules
- Lactiferous ducts
- nipple/areola

Divided into four quadrants or use a 12 hour clock + the tail of spence

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Axillary lymph nodes

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  • Anterior group
  • Posterior group
  • Lateral group
  • Central group
  • Apical group
  • Infraclavicular group
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Factors that may indicate breast cancer

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  • Redness – local infection, inflammatory carcinoma
  • Thickening and prominent pores
  • Flattening of normally convex breast
  • Asymmetry in nipple direction
  • Eczematous changes with rash, scaling, ulceration of the nipple extended to areola
  • Nipple inversion
  • Breast dimpling or retraction
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At what age should mammography start?

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Age 40

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What are three types of breast tumors?

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Fibroadenoma (benign tumor)
- Up to age 55
- Single or multiple
- Soft or firm
- Well deliniated
- Mobile
- Nontender
- Round, disclike lobular

Cysts
- 30-50
- Single or multiple
- Round
- Soft to firm, elastic
- Well delineated
- Mobile
- Tender

Cancer
- 30-90 (more common over 50)
- Usually single
- Irregular edge
- Firm or hard
- Not clearly delineated from other tissues
- Fixed to skin or underlying tissues
- Nontender

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Self-breast examinations

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Should be done 5-7 days after menses.

  • Use three fingers
  • Lying down
  • Circular movements up and down
  • Repeat standing with hand behind the head
  • Let us know if you find any changes
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Concerning symptoms found on breast self-examination.

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Mass
- Location
- How long
- Change in size
Dimpling/puckering of skin
Pain
Nipple discharge

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What physiologic changes do the breasts go through as the woman ages?

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The glandular ducts begin to atrophy and are replaced by adipose tissue.

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Male genital exam

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  • Inspect the skin, prepuce, and glans (ulcers, scars, nodules, inflammation).
  • Inspect the urethral meatus (discharge), and, if indicated, strip or “milk” the penile shaft.
  • Palpate the shaft of the penis (induration, tenderness).
  • Inspect the scrotum including skin, hair, and contour (lesion, swelling, veins, bulging masses, asymmetry).
  • Palpate each testis including the epididymis and spermatic cord (presence, size, shape, consistency, symmetry, tenderness, masses, nodules).
  • Perform special techniques as indicated:
  • Evaluate for groin hernias:
  • Inspect for a groin bulge.
  • Palpate for an inguinal hernia (direct or indirect).
  • Palpate for a femoral hernia.
  • Evaluate for scrotal mass.
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Questions prior to male genital exam

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Penile discharge>
- Yellow –> gonorrhea
- White –> chlamydia

Amount
Fever
Chills
Rash
Associated symptoms
Sores or growths
pruritis or itching
Swelling or pain

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Anatomy of the penis

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Penis – formed by three columns of vascular erectile tissue
- Corpus spongiosum (contains the urethra)
- Corpora cavernosa x2

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Phimosis

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Tight foreskin that cannot be retracted

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Paraphimosis

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tight foreskin that once retracted cannot be returned

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Balantitis

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Inflammation of the penile glans

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Hypospadias

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congenital ventral displacement of the urethral meatus (to bottom of penis)

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Hydrocele

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nontender, fluid filled mass, transilluminates – palpable within the scrotum

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Screening for STIs in men

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Previous history of herpes, gonorrhea, or syphilis
What kind of sex are you having? –> symptoms at various openings
Concerns for HIV?
Systemic illness or other symptoms
- Sore throat
- Diarrhea
- Rectal bleeding
- Anal itching/pain

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Genital warts

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  • Single or multiple papules or plaques of variable shapes
  • Caused by HPV
  • Itching and pain
  • May disappear without treatment
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Primary syphilis

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Small red papule and painless erosion up to 2 cm

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Genital herpes

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  • Small scattered or grouped vehicles on glans or shaft of penis
  • Associated with headache, fever, malaise, arthralgias, local pain and edema
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Cryptorchidism

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undescended testicle

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31
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Scrotal swelling suggests…

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  • Acute ependymitis
  • Acute orchitis
  • Testicular torsion
  • Strangulated inguinal hernia
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Risk factors for testicular cancer

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  • Undescended testicle
  • White male
  • Family history
  • Kleinefleter syndrome
  • HIV infection
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Strangulated hernia

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Blood supply is compromised. Usually has these symptoms:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Tenderness

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Incarcerated hernia

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Cannot be easily returned to the abdominal cavity

35
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HPV vaccination recommendation

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Usually age 11 or 12 -26 years old (can start at age 9). Two dose series - second dose 6-12 months after first dose

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Female genitalia exam

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  • Obtains permission; selects chaperone
  • Explains each step of the examination in advance
  • Drapes the patient from midabdomen to knees; depresses the drape between the knees to provide eye contact with patient
  • Avoids unexpected or sudden movements
  • Chooses a speculum that is the correct size
  • Warms the speculum with tap water
  • Monitors the comfort of the examination by watching the patient’s face and obtaining verbal feedback
  • Uses excellent but gentle technique, especially when inserting the speculum
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Uterus anatomy

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  • Isthmus – lower portion
  • Corpus – body portion
  • Fundus – upper portion
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Three layers of the uterine wall

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  • Perimetrium - outer layer
  • Myometrium – distensible smooth muscle
  • Endometrium – inner layer
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Adnexa

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Ovaries, fallopian tube and supporting tissues

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Functions of the pelvic floor

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  • Aid in sexual function
  • Urinary and fecal continence
  • Stabilization of connecting joints
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Menarche

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Onset of menses

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Dysmenorrhea

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pain with menses, often with bearing down, aching, or cramping sensation in the lower abdomen or pelvis

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Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

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cluster of emotional, behavioral, and physical symptoms occurring 5 d before menses for three consecutive cycles

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Abnormal uterine bleeding

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bleeding between menses; includes infrequent, excessive, prolonged, or postmenopausal bleeding

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Menopause

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absence of menses for 12 consecutive months, usually occurring between ages 48 and 55 yrs

46
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Postmenopausal bleeding

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bleeding occurring 6 mo or more after cessation of menses

47
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Bacterial vaginosis

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  • Bacterial overgrowth from anerobic bacteria often sexually transmitted
  • Gray, white, thin, homogenous, malodorous discharge often coats vaginal walls
  • Fishy smell
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Candidiasis

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  • Overgrowth of vaginal yeast
  • White curdy discharge
  • Pruritis, vaginal soreness, pain on urination
  • Vulva and surrounding skin may be inflamed
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Pelvic examination steps

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Perform an external examination:
- Assess sexual maturity (if adolescent).
- Inspect the mons pubis, labia, perineum (inflammation, ulceration, discharge, swelling, nodules, any lesions).

Perform an internal examination:
- Inspect the cervix (color, position, surface characteristics, any ulcerations, nodules, masses, bleeding, discharge).
- Inspect the vagina (masses, lesions, or abnormal discharge or bleeding).

Perform a bimanual examination:
- Palpate the cervix (position, shape, consistency, regularity, mobility, tenderness).
- Palpate the uterus (size, shape, consistency, mobility, any tenderness or masses).
- Palpate the ovaries (size, shape, consistency, mobility, any tenderness).
- Assess the pelvic floor muscles (strength and tenderness).

Perform a rectovaginal examination (if indicated).

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Pelvic inflammatory disease

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Caused by “spontaneous ascension of microbes from the cervix or vagina to the endometrium, fallopian tubes, and adjacent structures.”

  • 85% of cases involve STIs or bacterial vaginosis affecting the fallopian tubes (salpingitis) or the tubes and ovaries (salpingo-oophoritis), primarily N. gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis.

Symptoms
- adnexal, cervical, and uterine compression tenderness.
- If not treated, a tubo-ovarian abscess may ensue; 18% of treated patients report infertility after 3 yrs. Infection of the fallopian tubes and ovaries may also follow childbirth or gynecologic surgery.

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Mucopurulent cervicitis

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Purulent discharge from the cervical os usually trachomatic, gonorrhea, herpes

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Carcinoma of the cervix

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Extensive irregular cauliflower like growth

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Myoma

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Benign uterine tumors. single or multiple and vary greatly in size, occasionally reaching large proportions. They feel like firm irregular nodules that are continuous with the uterine surface.

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Cervical cancer screening

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  • PAP smear yearly
  • 21-25 three year cytology screening
  • 30-65 Q3 years cytology, Q5 years w/cytology and HPV testing together
  • No screening under 21 or over 65
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Risk factors for cervical cancer

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  • Multiple sex partners
  • Early age of sexual activity
  • Inadequate screening
  • Immunosuppression
  • Long term use of oral contraceptives
  • Coinfection with chlamydia
  • Smoking
  • More than three full term pregnancies
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Technique for anorectal and prostate exam

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  • Properly position the patient for the exam (left side)
  • Inspect sacrococcygeal and perianal areas (lesions, ulcers, inflammation, rash, excoriation)
  • Inspect the anus (lesion, mass, skin breakdown)
  • Perform a digital rectal examination
  • Assess anal sphincter tone
  • Palpate the anal canal and rectal surface (mass, tenderness, mucosal breaks, nodules, irregularities, induration)
  • In person with prostates, palpate the prostate gland (size, shape, mobility, consistency, nodule tenderness)
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Anatomy of the prostate

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  • Lies around the urethra
  • Apex – pointed bottom
  • Right and left lateral lobes (palpable)
  • Posteromedial (posterior) lobe
  • Cannot palpate anterior and median lobes (no contact with rectal wall)
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How to identify anorectal cancer?

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Firm, nodular with rolled edge on palpation

59
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Screening for prostate cancer

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Test for PSA - prostate specific antigen - a blood test
- Testing from age 55-69
- annually (ACS) or biannually (AUA)

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Risk factors for prostate cancer

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  • Age
  • Ethnicity
  • Family history (having it or early diagnosis – before 55)
  • Smoking
  • Diets high in animal fat
  • Obesity
  • Cadmium exposure
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Proctitis symptoms and cause

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Symptoms
- Fever
- Urinary symptoms
- Frequency
- Urgency
- Dysuria
- Incomplete voiding
- Low back pain
- Gland feels swollen, tender, boggy, warm
- Most caused by E Coli or Enterococcus and Proteus spp (also gonorrhea or claymidia)

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Techniques of exam for pregnant woman

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  • Assess general health, emotional state, nutritional status, and neuromuscular coordination.
  • Measure height and weight. Calculate BMI.
  • Measure the blood pressure at every visit.
  • Inspect the head and neck (facial skin changes or edema, hair condition and distribution, conjunctival pallor, nasal congestion or epistaxis, teeth and gum health, thyroid masses or nodules).
  • Inspect, percuss, and auscultate the thorax and lungs.
  • Palpate location of the apical impulse.
  • Auscultate the heart (S1 splitting, murmurs, venous hum or mammary souffle).
  • Inspect the abdomen (striae, scars, size, shape, and contour).
  • Palpate the abdomen (masses, fetal movement, uterine contractility and fundal height).
  • Auscultate fetal heart tones (location, rate and rhythm).
  • Inspect the external genitalia (labial varicosities, cystoceles, rectoceles, lesions, sores, Bartholin and Skene gland tenderness and cysts).
  • Inspect the internal genitalia by performing speculum and bimanual examinations.
  • Speculum examination: Inspect the cervix (color, shape, os closure) and vaginal walls (color, relaxation, rugae, and discharge). Perform a Pap smear if indicated.
  • Bimanual examination: Palpate the cervix (length, os), uterus (shape, consistency, and position), adnexa (masses, tenderness), pelvic floor strength.
  • Inspect the anus (masses or hemorrhoids).
  • Examine the extremities (varicosities, edema) and elicit reflexes (hyperreflexia).
  • Perform Leopold maneuvers (if indicated).
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Gravidity

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the number of time that a woman has been pregnant

64
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Parity

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the number of time that she has given birth to a fetus >=24 weeks (alive or stillborn)

65
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GTPAL

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G - Gravidity - number of times she has been pregnant
T - Term - # pregnancies carried to term
P - pre term births - 20-36 weeks
A - abortion - number of pregnancies lost before 20 weeks
L - living children

66
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Miscarriage

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Pregnancy loss before 20 weeks

67
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Ectopic pregnancy

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Occurs when a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus. Almost all ectopic pregnancies—more than 90%—occur in a fallopian tube. As the pregnancy grows, it can cause the tube to burst (rupture). A rupture can cause major internal bleeding.

68
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Gestational age calculation

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Count the number of weeks and days since the LMP

69
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Estimated date of delivery

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  • 40 weeks from the first date of the LMP
  • Take the LMP add 7 days, subtract 3 months and add 1 year
70
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Screening and lab tests suggested during pregnancy

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  • Rh(D) compatability screening
  • Syphilis
  • Bacteriuria
  • Hep B
  • HIV
  • Iron deficiency
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Perinatal depression
  • Domestic violence
71
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Vitamin supplements during pregnancy

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  • Daily prenatal vitamin with 600IU vit D and 1000mg calcium
  • Folic acid
  • Iron supplementation
72
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Nutrition recommendations during pregnancy

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Avoid
- Unpasteurized milk/foods
- Raw & undercooked seafood, eggs, meat
- Pate, meat spreads, smoked salmon
- Hot dogs, lunch meat, cold cuts (unless served steaming hot)

Take
- 2-3 servings per week of fish/shellfish (low mercury – salmon, shrimp, pollock, tuna, tilapia, cod, catfish)

73
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Exercise recommendation during pregnancy

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30+ minutes of moderate exercise most days

74
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Preeclampsia

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SBP ≥140 or DBP ≥90 after 20 weeks on two occasions at least 4 hours apart in a woman with previously normal BP or BP ≥160/110 confirmed within minutes and proteinuria ≥300 mg/24 hours, protein to creatinine ratio ≥0.3, or dipstick 1+ OR:

New-onset hypertension without proteinuria and any of the following: thrombocytopenia (platelets <100,000/μL), impaired liver function (liver transaminase levels more than twice normal), new renal insufficiency (creatinine >1.1 mg/dL or doubles in the absence of renal disease), pulmonary edema, or new-onset cerebral or visual symptoms

75
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Gestational hypertension

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SPB >140 or DBP >90

76
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Hyperemesis gravidarum-

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N/V with weight loss that exceeds 5% of pre-pregnancy weight

77
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Gestational Diabetes

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A 50-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is administered and venous glucose checked 1 hour after the glucose load, with screening thresholds of 130 to 140 mg/dL used at various institutions.

Patients with a positive 50-g screen then undergo a 100-g, 3-hour diagnostic OGTT. Patients are diagnosed with gestational diabetes when two or more values are abnormal on the 3-hour OGTT

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Immunizations recommended during/after pregnancy

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  • Tdap (27-36 weeks gestation)
  • Inactivated flu vaccine
  • Rubella titer –> vaccine given after delivery if not immune
79
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USPSTF Recommendations for Breast Cancer Screening

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  1. Breast exam annually for women 40+
  2. Mammography for women 50-74 biannuallly
  3. no breast self-exam
  4. breast self-awareness
80
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Testicular cancer

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  1. Painless nodules
  2. 15-34 year olds - peak
  3. Palpable inguinal lymph nodes
81
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STI discharge in men

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Penile discharge is :

white -chlamydia
yellow - gonorrhea
chancre - syphyllis

82
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STIs in women

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Vaginal discharge is:

yellow - chlamydia
yellow - gonorrhea
chancre, large flat top lesions - syphyllis

83
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Safe vaccines during pregnancy

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  • TDAP
  • inactivated flu
  • pneumococcal
  • meningococcal
  • Hep A & B

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