Spontaneous or elective abortion - Answer✔️✔️-before 20 weeks
gestation
True vs. False Labor - Answer✔️✔️-TRUE labor
regular interval of contractions with time in between shortening,
intensity of contractions gradually increases in back and abdomen,
analgesia does not terminate true labor, progressive effacement and
dilation of cervix
FALSE labor
irregular intervals between contractions and can remain long
spaces, intensity of contractions remains the same, location of pain
tends to be mostly in lower abdomen, analgesia frequently abolishes
completely, no cervical dilation or effacement
confirmation of ROM - Answer✔️✔️-physical examination, laboratory
testing (fern or nitrazine), ultrasonography, or other testing like
Amnisure
crown-rump length - Answer✔️✔️-most accurate measurement of the
embryo in the first trimester
6 to 12 weeks gestation (accurate within 3 days or so)
Leopold's Maneuvers - Answer✔️✔️-Palpation to determine
presentation and position of the fetus and aid in location of fetal
heart sounds.
Head=hard, round, movable object
Buttocks=soft and irregular shape
Back=smooth, hard surface felt on one side of the abdomen
Irregular knobs and lumps on opposite side of abdomen may be
hands, feet, elbows, and knees
frank breech - Answer✔️✔️-both hips are flexed with knees extended
complete breech - Answer✔️✔️-both hips are flexed with one or both
knees extended
incomplete breech - Answer✔️✔️-one or both hips deflexed with one
or both feet or knees below the buttocks
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