AWHONN NEONATAL FINAL PAPER
REVIEW GUIDE WITH VERIFIED ITEMS AND
SOLUTION WALKTHROUGH
●● How do we classify high risk neonates?
Answer: Weight
Growth
Gestational Age
●● What is considered a low birth weight of a high risk neonate?
Answer: <2500 grams
●● What is considered a very low birth weight of a high risk neonate?
Answer: <1500 grams
●● What is considered an extremely low birth weight for a high risk
neonate?
Answer: <1000 grams
●● What are the growth classifications of a high risk neonate?
Answer: -intrauterine growth restriction (how they were growing in
utero)
,-small for gestational age (can have normal growth but still just small,
<10%)
-large for gestational age (>90%)
●● What are the 3 gestational age classifications of a high risk neonate?
Answer: -premature infant </= 36 6/7 weeks
-Term infant >/= 37 0/7 weeks
-Post-mature infant >42 weeks gestation
●● What are the NICU risk factors?
Answer: -prematurity
-low birth weight- may just be too small to stay warm
-birth depression
-high risk pregnancy
-congenital anomalies
●● What are the risk factors for prematurity
Answer: -teen pregnancy
-advanced maternal age (>35)
-low socioeconomic status
-drug use and tobacco use
-history of preterm birth
, -multiple gestation (twins, triplets)
-obesity
-diabetes
-hypertension
-infection (moms PROM, UTI, viral infection)
-infertility treatments: IVF, multiple babies
●● What do we need to know regarding neonatal resuscitation?
Answer: -neonatal resuscitation program (NRP)
-about 10% of newborns require some assistance to begin breathing at
birth
-less than 1% require extensive resuscitative measures, such as cardiac
compressions or medications
-every birth should be attended by 1 person who can perform initial
steps of newborn resuscitation and PPV (someone to preform bag and
mask)
●● What are the important questions we need to ask regarding neonatal
resuscitation?
Answer: What's their gestation?
-are they term? premature?
What's their tone?
-crying and such they don't need resuscitation, or are they floppy?
REVIEW GUIDE WITH VERIFIED ITEMS AND
SOLUTION WALKTHROUGH
●● How do we classify high risk neonates?
Answer: Weight
Growth
Gestational Age
●● What is considered a low birth weight of a high risk neonate?
Answer: <2500 grams
●● What is considered a very low birth weight of a high risk neonate?
Answer: <1500 grams
●● What is considered an extremely low birth weight for a high risk
neonate?
Answer: <1000 grams
●● What are the growth classifications of a high risk neonate?
Answer: -intrauterine growth restriction (how they were growing in
utero)
,-small for gestational age (can have normal growth but still just small,
<10%)
-large for gestational age (>90%)
●● What are the 3 gestational age classifications of a high risk neonate?
Answer: -premature infant </= 36 6/7 weeks
-Term infant >/= 37 0/7 weeks
-Post-mature infant >42 weeks gestation
●● What are the NICU risk factors?
Answer: -prematurity
-low birth weight- may just be too small to stay warm
-birth depression
-high risk pregnancy
-congenital anomalies
●● What are the risk factors for prematurity
Answer: -teen pregnancy
-advanced maternal age (>35)
-low socioeconomic status
-drug use and tobacco use
-history of preterm birth
, -multiple gestation (twins, triplets)
-obesity
-diabetes
-hypertension
-infection (moms PROM, UTI, viral infection)
-infertility treatments: IVF, multiple babies
●● What do we need to know regarding neonatal resuscitation?
Answer: -neonatal resuscitation program (NRP)
-about 10% of newborns require some assistance to begin breathing at
birth
-less than 1% require extensive resuscitative measures, such as cardiac
compressions or medications
-every birth should be attended by 1 person who can perform initial
steps of newborn resuscitation and PPV (someone to preform bag and
mask)
●● What are the important questions we need to ask regarding neonatal
resuscitation?
Answer: What's their gestation?
-are they term? premature?
What's their tone?
-crying and such they don't need resuscitation, or are they floppy?
