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1. Women with a history of giving birth to a child with a neural tube defect or a
strong family history should take folic acid ___ beginning ___ before
pregnancy - ANSWER ✔ 4 mg/day, several months
2. Women with insulin dependent diabetes and those taking valporic acid and
carbamazepine for seizure disorder should take at least ____ - ANSWER ✔
1 mg/day folic acid
3. All other women should take folic acid ___ starting at least one month prior
to conception - ANSWER ✔ 0.4 mg/day
4. Initial lab testing for all patients ? - ANSWER ✔ CBC w/ diff
Blood type & Rh
Antibody screen
RPR or VDRL (syphillis)
HIV screening
Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAG)
Rubella and Varicella-Zoster titers
Urinalysis/Urine C&S (clean catch or cath sample)
Pap smear if >21 years old (omit if normal Pap within the past 3 years).
DNA probe for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia
5. How often is a urinalysis done? - ANSWER ✔ at each visit
6. Any patient with sickle cell trait will get a urine C&S _____ - ANSWER ✔
every trimester
,7. Screening for neural tube defects and trisomy 21, 18, and 13
- 2 options (Stepwise integrated screening & Quadruple screening) -
ANSWER ✔ aneuploidy screening
8. aneuploidy screening that compares two separate risk measures
1st step: between 11 0/7 and 13 6/7 weeks gestation
- Ultrasound measurement of fetal nuchal translucency
Serum test: pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A) and BHCG.
Used to screen for trisomies 13, 18, and 21
9. 2nd step: between 15 and 18 weeks gestation
- Maternal AFP to detect open neural tube defect - ANSWER ✔
stepwise integrated screening
10.aneuploidy screening / done between 15-20 weeks gestation, ideally 16-18
weeks
Includes:
1. Maternal serum a-fetoprotein (AFP)
2. Serum β-human chorionic gonadotropin (BHCG)
3. Unconjugated Estriol
4. Inhibin - ANSWER ✔ Quadruple Screening
11.First-line medications (3) for severe HTN? - ANSWER ✔ methyldopa,
labetalol, nifedipine
12.What BP meds are CONTRAINDICATED in pregnancy?
- Can lead to MAJOR congenital malformations - ANSWER ✔ ACE
and ARBs (catapril, lisinopril, and enalapril)
13.Second-choice medication for severe HTN? - ANSWER ✔ diuretics
BP > 140/90 after 20 weeks of pregnancy
- Distinguished from Pre-eclampsia by negative proteinuria - ANSWER
✔ Gestational HTN
,14.Maternal BP > 140/90 on 2 occasions, 4 hours apart PLUS 1 of the
following:
- Proteinuria (spot urine protein/creatinine ratio >0.3)***
- Thrombocytopenia (platelet count <100,000)
- Renal insufficiency (serum Cr >1.1)
- Impaired liver function (liver transaminases 2x normal)
- Pulmonary edema
- Cerebral or visual symptoms (HA, blurred vision) - ANSWER ✔
Pre-eclampsia
15.risk factors for pre-eclampsia? - ANSWER ✔ nulliparous, age >35,
previous pre-eclampsia, chronic HTN or renal disease, multiple pregnancy,
IVF, diabetes, obesity, SLE
16.BP > 160/110 while on bedrest with oliguria, cerebral or visual disturbance,
pulmonary edema, impaired liver function, thrombocytopenia or epigastric.
RUQ pain
- use mag sulfate for BP reduction and seizure prevention
- corticosteroids for fetal lung maturity
- strive for delivery after 34 weeks - ANSWER ✔ Pre-eclampsia with
severe features
17.Same features as pre-eclampsia with severe features, except there is a
presence of SEIZURES
Community Acquired Pneumonia often occurs in the elderly: Thus, it's
important to note the differences in how they would present. In addition to
dyspnea,
tachypnea, and inspiratory crackles -- What additional symptoms or change in
timing would be seen? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
A: cough with or without sputum
B: low temperature
C: subacute onset of symptoms
D: acute change in mental status - ANSWER ✔ ABD
A: cough with or without sputum
B: low temperature
, D: acute change in mental status
18.What is the MOST sensitive sign in the elderly presenting with pneumonia?
A: tachypnea
B: low-grade fever
C: mental status change
D: inspiratory crackles - ANSWER ✔ A. Tachypnea
19.55 yr. old patient presents to your clinic with dyspnea, fever, and inspiratory
crackles heard on auscultation. You suspect CAP. Your next intervention
would be?
A: Order blood work, EKG, CXR
B: Order PFTs
C: Order spirometry test with PRN bronchodilator
D: Order PO antibiotics - ANSWER ✔ D. Order PO abx
20.During your initial work-up for patient with CAP, you order a rapid nasal
swab to detect Influenza. Your patient questions why this
is necessary. Your response is?
A: Most often, influenza is the cause
B: A positive test will determine treatment
C: Influenza could complicate CAP disease progression
D: I need to obtain this test to report to Health Department - ANSWER ✔ B:
A positive test will determine treatment
21.T or F: CXR cannot identify causative organism or distinguish bacterial
from viral pneumonia - ANSWER ✔ True
22.A 35-yr. old patient with hx of recent corticosteroid use reports to your
clinic and is diagnosed with CAP. You check the eMAR and
determine this patient has received azithromycin 4 wks ago. What is the
recommended outpatient abx choice?
A: clarithromycin
B: amoxicillin