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Advanced Fetal Monitoring Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass What category rules out fetal acidemia? - Cat 1 What maternal conditions greatly impact fetal oxygenation? - Severe astha, cardiac issues, and ecclampic seizures Where does the exchange of O2 and nutrients take place? - intervillou...

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Advanced Fetal Monitoring Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass

What category rules out fetal acidemia? - ✔✔Cat 1


What maternal conditions greatly impact fetal oxygenation? - ✔✔Severe astha, cardiac issues, and

ecclampic seizures


Where does the exchange of O2 and nutrients take place? - ✔✔intervillous space


How is o2 blood transferred to the fetus? - ✔✔O2 enters the intervillous space via the maternal arteries, to

the villi then the umbilical vein take the o2 blood to the fetus. The umbilical arteries take the deO2 blood

from the baby through the villi and back to the mother


Diffusion - ✔✔High to low concentration


Mom to fetus for O2


Low to high concentration for CO2 so baby to mom


How is O2 transferred from mom to baby - ✔✔Diffusion


Explain spiral arteries in placenta - ✔✔Carry O2 into intervillous space


Are maximally dilated so they can not be increased


What are factors that can decrease uteroplacental blood flow? - ✔✔Maternal conditions like pre-e and

cardiac disease


Maternal hypotension



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Placental changes- abruptions, infections, edema, or smaller size


Excessive uterine activity


Vasoconstriction


What happens to the spiral arteries during pre-e? - ✔✔They are constricted which decreases blood flow


Why does the supine position cause decreased uteroplactenal blood flow? - ✔✔The aorta and vena cava

get compressed (20 weeks)


Why does maternal hypotension happen after regional analgesia? - ✔✔Blocks the sympathetic pathway


Pooling of blood in the lower extremities decreases blood flow back to moms heart which decreases blood

flow to the fetus


What percentage is uteroplacental blood flow decreased by during cxts? - ✔✔60%


Explain the pathway for maternal- fetal exchange for fetal oxygenation (basic) - ✔✔Environment to lungs

to heart to vasculature to uterus to placenta to umbilical cord


Where is the least O2 blood in the fetus? - ✔✔Limbs, kidneys, and descending aorta


Where is the most O2 blood in the fetus? - ✔✔Umbilical vein and ductous venous


Connects the umbilical vein to the inferior vena cava, bypassing the liver


Shunt that allows most O2 blood to fetal heart - ✔✔Ductus venosus


3 important shunts in fetal circulation - ✔✔ductus venosus, foramen ovale, ductus arteriosus


connects the two atria in the fetal heart


Allows O2 blood to flow through the heart and directly to the brain - ✔✔Foramen Ovale




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