Labor Complications — Flashcards

Flashcard 31: What is the treatment for infectious endometritis? _____

Answer: Gentamicin + clindamycin with or without ampicillin

Flashcard 32: If a previously pregnant patient in the few hours / days after their delivery: - develops a sudden onset of back pain / radicular pain - progresses to complete or partial paralysis of the lower extremities What is this highly suggestive of? _____

Answer: Spinal epidural hematoma

Flashcard 33: Follicular cysts may cause _____ and _____, presenting with severe abdominal pain

Answer: sterile peritonitis (due to rupture)

Flashcard 34: What is the gold-standard antibiotic regimen for the treatment of **postpartum endometritis**? _____

Answer: Gentamicin + Clindamycin

Flashcard 35: Treatment of septic abortion includes broad spectrum antibiotics and _____

Answer: prompt surgical evacuation

Flashcard 36: Ectopic pregnancy is often clinically mistaken for _____

Answer: appendicitis

Flashcard 37: Which bacterium often causes acute Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)? _____

Answer: Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Flashcard 38: Placental abruption may cause fetal distress and thus a(n) _____

Answer: still birth

Flashcard 39: Septic abortion results from retained _____

Answer: products of conception

Flashcard 40: Placenta _____ is the abnormal penetration of the placenta into the myometrium

Answer: increta

Extra: * causes PPH