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Ectopic Pregnancy - ✔✔egg develops outside of uterus that can lead to rupture +
extreme bleeding
High Risk Pregnancy predisposing factors - ✔✔Age, medical conditions, preeclampsia,
gestational diabetes, drug + alcohol abuse
Shoulder Dystocia - ✔✔Fetus shoulders too broad & becomes lodged in birth canal
- Turtle sign
Treat by pushing thighs to chest to widen canal
umbilical cord prolapse - ✔✔loop of cord sticks out past the fetus, can be pinched and
deprive fetus of oxygen/nutrients.
- undeliverable, immediate transport, ensure pulse in cord
- if no pulse lift head off of cord, knee chest in mother helps
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, postpartum hemorrhage - ✔✔Continuous bleeding after birth
- massage fundus to facilitate uterine contraction
- one hand inside vagina + one pressing over abdomen and compress
Indication to suction a newborn - ✔✔Meconium (stool), amniotic fluid after birth,
anything in airway
Croup - ✔✔Viral infection of the upper airway with a barking cough and often stridor
- nebulized saline/epi
epiglottitis - ✔✔inflammation of the epiglottis, can block airway
-signs: shortness of breath, sore throat, trouble swallowing
-treatment: BVM
chorioamnionitis - ✔✔inflammation of the fetal membranes
Signs of pediatric abuse - ✔✔bruises in various stages of healing, burns, patterns of
injury, unusual/unsafe/unsanitary conditions, behaviour of those at the scene
Pediatric arrest causes - ✔✔primary/secondary apnea, bradycardia, persistent fetal
circulation, pulmonary hypertension
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