Prenatal Care — Flashcards

Flashcard 41: What treatment may be used to treat neonatal respiratory distress syndrome before birth? _____

Answer: Maternal steroids

Flashcard 42: Herpes simplex virus (HSV) can be transmitted via saliva, sex, and vertically (usually through the _____).

Answer: birth canal

Extra: While part of the ToRCHeS mnemonic, HSV is typically transmitted peripartum (during delivery via the birth canal). This is in contrast to most other TORCH infections (Toxoplasmosis, Rubella, CMV, Syphilis) which are primarily transmitted transplacentally. C-section is indicated if active HSV lesions are present at the time of delivery to prevent this vertical transmission.

Flashcard 43: _____ age of a fetus is calculated from date of conception (gestational age minus 2 weeks)

Answer: Embryonic

Flashcard 44: Shedding of the endometrium occurs with loss of _____ support (menstrual phase)

Answer: progesterone

Flashcard 45: The first phase of the menstrual cycle is the _____ phase, which lasts from days 0 to 14

Answer: follicular (proliferative)

Flashcard 46: _____ is transient mid-cycle ovulatory pain that may mimic appendicitis

Answer: Mittelschmerz

Flashcard 47: The function of hCG is to maintain the _____ by acting like LH for the first 8-10 weeks of pregnancy

Answer: corpus luteum

Flashcard 48: In mid-to-late pregnancy (second and third trimester), the source of steroid hormones is the _____

Answer: placenta

Flashcard 49: Variation in menstrual cycle length is attributed to the variability in duration of the _____ phase

Answer: follicular

Flashcard 50: What range of weeks is considered a term gestation? _____

Answer: 37-42 weeks