O possible: death, brain damage, kidney failure, muscle damage, organ dysfunction
Decision to incision - answer- 30 minutes
How long should the birth take if doing an emergency c-section without epidural - answer- ·8
minutes
, Hypoxemia - answer- lack of oxygen in fetal blood
Hypoxia - answer- lack of oxygen in fetal tissue
Limitations of efm: - answer- · only a tool à not diagnostic
· overly optimistic
· provides information only on current acid-baes status in fetus
What does certain feelings of the abdomen indicate - answer- · mild (feeling of nose) - early in
labor, things aren't intense yet
· moderate (chin) - start a little more pain, need to hold something
· firm (forehead) - can't talk through them, late to transitional phase
· intense
Tocodynamometer (toco) - answer- monitors how often and how long contractions last
Intrauterine pressure catheter (iupc) - answer- monitors contractions and how intense they are
· must have ruptured membranes
Terms to assess uterine contraction: - answer- · frequency - time between beginning of one
contraction and beginning of next
· number - number of contraction in 10 minutes
· duration - measured from the beginning of contraction to completion of contraction
· intensity - strength, peak of contraction - resting tone
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