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Medical Diagnosis: Respiratory distress Syndrome
Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing
Care Plan Chapter 24: Nursing Management of the Newborn at Risk:
Acquired and Congenital Newborn Conditions
Definition of medical diagnosis: a breathing disorder resulting from lung immaturity
and lack of alveolar surfactant.
Common sign/symptoms:
- Labored breathing
- lung collapse
- Hypoxemia
- acidemia
Risk factors:
- Perinatal asphyxia
- Cesarean birth in the absence of preceding labor (related to the lack of thoracic
squeezing)
- Male gender
- Maternal diabetes.
Potential complications:
. - Air leak syndrome
. - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (chronic lung disease)
. - Patent ductus arteriosus
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. - Congestive heart failure
. - Intraventricular hemorrhage
. - Retinopathy of prematurity
. - Necrotizing enterocolitis
amurimi
Medical Diagnosis: Respiratory distress Syndrome
Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing
Care Plan Chapter 24: Nursing Management of the Newborn at Risk:
Acquired and Congenital Newborn Conditions
Definition of medical diagnosis: a breathing disorder resulting from lung immaturity
and lack of alveolar surfactant.
Common sign/symptoms:
- Labored breathing
- lung collapse
- Hypoxemia
- acidemia
Risk factors:
- Perinatal asphyxia
- Cesarean birth in the absence of preceding labor (related to the lack of thoracic
squeezing)
- Male gender
- Maternal diabetes.
Potential complications:
. - Air leak syndrome
. - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (chronic lung disease)
. - Patent ductus arteriosus
amurimi
, 2
. - Congestive heart failure
. - Intraventricular hemorrhage
. - Retinopathy of prematurity
. - Necrotizing enterocolitis
amurimi
