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WGU OB HESI TERMS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Preterm birth complications - Answer-Number one leading cause of death under age 5

infant mortality - Answer-death within the first year of life

Two leading causes of infant mortality - Answer-Respiratory distress and sids

Smoking during pregnancy - Answer-causes:
Lowers amount of oxygen to your baby needed for baby to grow
Increases baby heart rate
Increases chances of miscarriage
*Important* Increases chance of premature labor and low birth weight

Fetal Alchol Spectrum Disorder - Answer-Condition where the mother drank while
pregnant.
This can affect babys heart, kidneys and bones.
Learning disabilities and low IQ
Memory, coordination and attention deficits.
Hyperactivity
Problems sucking or sleeping

fetal alcohol syndrome - Answer-a medical condition in which body deformation or facial
development or mental ability of a fetus is impaired because the mother drank alcohol
while pregnant
small head size or deformed joints, most common is facial deformities such as small
eyes, thin upper lip, and a ridge between the nose and upper lip

cocaine while pregnant - Answer-premature size/weight, tremulous, high pitched crying,
respiratory & regurgitation problems, rigidity, withdrawal symptoms, deformities

Pregnancy obesity - Answer-increases risk of
Preeclampsia
Gestational diabetes mellitus
Gestational hypertension
Preterm delivery
c-section

Pregnancy obesity affects on infant - Answer-Increase risk or heart defects and neural
tube defects, shoulder dystocia, fetal asphyxia, nicu, and still birth.

Fetal Heart rate monitoring - Answer-Medical test that indicates fetal compromise during
labor

, Cytomegalovirus - Answer-herpes-type virus that usually causes disease when the
immune system is compromised

Congenital Cytomegalovirus - Answer-Is passed to fetuses from mothers who may be
asymptomatic. Of the 10% born with symptoms, 90% will have later neurological
abnormalities, including intellectual disabilities

Complications of CMV in infant - Answer-Rash
Jaundice (yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes)
Microcephaly (small head)
Low birth weight
Hepatosplenomegaly (enlarged liver and spleen)
Seizures
Retinitis (damaged eye retina)

congenital varicella syndrome - Answer-greatest risk in first 20 weeks of gestation, can
cause multiple physical and mental abnormalities. neonatal varicella occurs within 5
days of delivery

underdeveloped arms and legs, eye inflammation, and incomplete brain development.

Congenital Rubella Syndrome - Answer-A form of birth defect that occurs when the
mother becomes infected with the rubella virus in her first trimester. Can cause
miscarriage, stillbirth, blindness to infant, deafness to infant and brain defects.

Syphilis during pregnancy - Answer-the earlier in pregnancy the fetus is exposed, the
more severe to fetal infection, greater the risk of premature delivery or stillbirth
tx the same except no doxy, use penicillin despite allergy, consider inpatient

Toxoplasmosis - Answer-a parasite that is most commonly transmitted from pets to
humans by contact with contaminated animal feces

Toxoplasmosis treatment - Answer-Pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, plus folinic acid.

Congenital toxoplasmosis - Answer-basal ganglia calcification, blindness
(chorioretinitis), hydrocephalus -> avoid cat litter in pregnancy

Congenital Zika Syndrome - Answer-Microcephaly (small head), neural impairment,
digestive, urogenital, and cardiac consequences
transmission- mosquito

Spermatogenesis - Answer-the production of sperm cells

fundus measurement - Answer-Measurement from pelvic bone to the top of uterus
correlates with due date and helps keep track of baby's growth and development

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