Postnatal care Pass Guaranteed Correctly Answered Questions

Postnatal care Pass Guaranteed Correctly Answered

Questions

% of babies affected by hyperbilirubinaemia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -60% of term and 80% of

preterm infants in UK


2 types of hearing tests - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -•Always involves the automated otoacoustic

emission test (AOAE), some babies also have automated auditory brainstem response test (AABR)


4 shapes of heads - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ --normal head shape


-mild/moderate/severe brachycephaly


acne neonatorum - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -


ankyloglossia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -


baby hyperbilirubinaemia chart - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -•Serum bilirubin is plotted on gestation-

appropriate chart to guide treatment


blueberry muffin rash - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ --worried about it


-caused by rubella, CMV, toxoplasmosis


breast problems postnatally - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ --will have engorgement, peak at day 3

postnatally (breasts feel heavy and sore)


-advise analgesia, cold compress, well fitting bra if bottlefeeding


-may need to express a little to soften breasts if breastfeeding


clinical examination of new mothers - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ --gen health

, -signs of sepsis


-lochia


-breasts


-wound healing


-PU/BO


-symptoms of VTE


-mental health


colour of baby - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -•Is baby well perfused?


§Acrocyanosis and


§circumoral cyanosis


•Any jaundice?


•Any mottling?


•Cutis marmorata


•Livedo racemosa


congenital syphillis - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -


epstein's pearls - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -


erythema toxicum neonatorum - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ --not concerning


group a step sepsis - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ --•50% cases less than 2 hours from first symptoms to

severe sepsis