Maternal-Newborn Nursing Ch 25 Complications of Pregnancy correctly answered graded A+

Maternal-Newborn Nursing Ch 25 Complications of Pregnancy perinatologist - correct answer medical specialist in high-risk pregnancy care from about 20 weeks of gestation through 4 weeks postpartum three most common causes of hemorrhage during the first half of pregnancy - correct answer abortion, ectopic pregnancy, and gestational trophoblastic disease abortion - correct answer the loss of pregnancy before the fetus is viable, or capable of living outside the uterus--a fetus of less than 20 weeks of gestation or one weighing less than 500 grams is not viable. abortion is a medical term for either a spontaneous ending or an induced ending of pregnancy miscarriage - correct answer an accepted medical term to denote spontaneous abortion spontaneous abortion - correct answer termination of pregnancy without action taken by the woman or another person. incidence increases with parental age. most occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. the most common cause of spontaneous abortion is severe congenital abnormalities that are often incompatible with life spontaneous abortion is divided up into six subgroups - correct answer threatened, inevitable, incomplete, complete, missed, and recurrent