Women's Health-OB Flashcards
Chadwick sign
bluish discoloration of the cervix
Hegar sign
softening btwn funds and cervix
When do you get fetal heart tones
10-12 weeks w/ doppler (normal = 120-160)
5-6 weeks w/ Transvag US
Uterus size by weeks
12 = pubic symph 14-16= midway to umbilicus 20 = umbilicus 20-38 = fundal height aka McDonald
What is lightening?
Decrease in fundal height after 38 weeks w/ decent of fetus into the pelvis
How to calculate EDD?
Nagele
add 7 days and subtract 3 mo from LMP
1st visit
@ 6-8 weeks
- complete hx and screening labs:
- GC/chlam, Hep B, HIV, rubella, ABO, D(Rh), H&H, RPR/VDRL, CF, urine culture for asymp bacteriuria
16-20 wk labs
- quant screenAFP
- amniocentesis
- US
24-28 wk labs
- 1hr GTT
- H&H
34-36 wk labs
-Group B strep screen
10-12 wk labs
PAPP-A, free beta-hCG, nuchal translucency, CVS
Vaccines in Pregnancy
- influenza: unvaccinated should be immunized at ANY time during influenza season
- Tdap: all pregos who have not been previously vaccinated should get 1 dose during the late 2nd or 3rd trimester (after 20 wks to protect baby)
- NO LIVE VACCINES = VARICELLA, MMR, YELLOW FEVER
Spont Abortion
- before 20 wks
- 60% = chromosomal abnormalities
Threatened Abortion
-bleeding w/ or w/o cramps w/ CLOSED cervix
Inevitable Abortion
-bleeding w/ or w/o cramps w/ DILATED cervix
Complete Abortion
-all products have been expelled
Missed Abortion
-embryo or fetus dies but the products are retained
Incomplete Abortion
-some portion of products of conception remain in the uterus
Habitual Abortion
3 or more in succession
think SLE or thyroid
RF for ectopic pregnancy
- previous ectopic
- previous PID
- B/L tubal ligation
- Previous pelvic surgery
- IUD
- Infertility and assisted repro technology
Presentation of ectopic
- always high index of suspicion*
- spotting
- pelvic pain
- positive hcG might be lower than expected
- *US** a level of 1500 HCG should allow visualization of intrauterine gestation
Tx of ectopic
- Surgery
- Methotrexate (can’t use if there is a HR or if poor F/U)
- *remember to check Rh and type**
Rh- means what?
do not have anti-D
(after first exposure make anti-D and then the next pregnancy w/ Rh + baby = attack baby’s RBCs = hemolysis, CHF, death)
rhogam at 28 wks gestation and w/in 72 hr of delivery
Presentation of Trophoblastic Dz
aka Molar/Hydatidifrom Pregnancy
- bleeding
- hyperemesis
- large for dates uterus
- hCG markedly high for LMP
- *pre-eclampsia in 1st or 2nd trimester is pathognomic for molar pregnancy**
- snowstorm or cluster of grapes appearance on US