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physiologic dyspnea of pregnancy symptoms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"difficulty
catching breath". No fever, chills, sputum, cough, edema, palpitations, chest pain
What pulmonary volumes are decreased in pregnancy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ERV,
FRC, RV all due to increase in diaphragm
Progesterone effects of pulmonary physiology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔P causes
increased central chemoreceptor sensitivity to CO2 which results in increased
ventilation and reduction in arterial PCO2.
Respiratory alkalosis that results from dec art pco2, compensated by kidney
excretion of bicarb. --> LOWER BICARB levels in 0pregnancy!
percent of women with physiologic dyspnea of pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔75%
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, 39wk woman with fatigue, SOB, palpitations, edema - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔peripartum
cardiomyopathy. it is idiopathic
expected ABG of pregnant woman - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔art pc02 27-32 mmHg
HCO3- 18-31 mEq/L
pH 7.4 - 7.45
Maternal blood volume increases ________% by term - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔35%
How much iron is recommended daily for a pregnant nonanemic woman? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔60 mg
in the ferrous sulfate form, a dose of 300mg is requred
Which way does the OBC shift during pregnancy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔OBC shifts
left due to respiratory alkalosis of pregnancy
How high can the white count rise during labor? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔up to 30,000
pregnancy affect on GFR - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔increases GFR by 50%
pregnancy affect on Cr and BUN - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔decrease in normal pregnancy
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