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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How is PPROM treated (<32w), PROM 32-34w, PROM 34w+? | PPROM: give steroids and ABx. 32-34: check lungs, if mature, deliver. If not, give ABx +steroids, deliver at 34w. 34w+: ABx + delivery |
| How do you treat braxton hicks (irregular) contractions? | walk it off i.e. reassurance and f off |
| if premature labor starts, what do you do at <34w? | tocolysis (+ ampicillin for GBS) |
| placenta previa treatment? | if first trimester, leave it be..itll move. if at term, do C sections once lungs mature (tocolysis until then, you CANNOT deliver vaginally) |
| Early decel? | fetal head compression |
| late decel? | uteroplacental insufficiency (hypoxia) |
| variable decel? | umblical cord compression, change mothers position |
| when do you do fetal scalp electrode? | if fetal distress at >36w, do it during labor |