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5 Ps of Labor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Passageway
Passenger
Power
Position
Psyche
Passageway - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔pelvis, cervix, vagina
4 pelvic shapes
Gynecoid is optimal
,Zero station - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔presenting part at ischial spines
Engagement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔largest presenting part passed into the true
pelvis, equal with ischial spines
-3 station - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔head is above the ischial spines
+3 station - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔baby is crowning
Cervical dilation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Expanding/opening/widening of the
cervix from 0-10 cm
Cervical effacement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔shortening/thinning of the cervix from
0-100% during the 1st stage
Cervical Station - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔relationship of presenting part to ischial
spines measured in cm
Passanger - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fetus
Need to consider fetal skull, lie, and position
Modeling - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔shifting of bones in the fetal skull to fit through
the pelvis
,Fontanels - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔membrane filled spaces between cranial bones
in infants
Anterior fontanel - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔large diamond shape, closes by 18
months
Posterior fontanel - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔small, triangular closes by 6-8 weeks
Fetal positioning - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cephalic/vertex
Breech
Transverse
Fetal Lie - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔relation of spine of the fetus to the spine of the
client
Longitudinal Lie - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cephalic (head down)
vertex (head down)
breech (butt down)
Transverse Lie - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Scapula (shoulder)
Fetal Position - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1st Letter - Right or Left (where the back is)
2nd Letter - Occiput or Sacrum (head or butt)
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, 3rd Letter - Anterior or Posterior
Primary Power - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔involuntary uterine contractions
Secondary Power - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔voluntary pushing
Psyche - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔client's feelings about themselves, pregnancy,
surrondings
Chorioamnionitis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔infection of the amnion, chorion, or both
Chorioamnionitis Risk Factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔PPROM/PROM
Many digital exams
Prolonged Labor
Preterm Birth
Chorioamnionitis Complications - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Neonatal Sepsis
Postpartum hemorrhage
Chorioamnionitis dx - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Maternal Temp > 38C + two of the
following:
- Maternal tachycardia
- Fetal tachycardia