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APGAR - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ appearance, pulse, grimace,
activity, respiration
What is APGAR? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ • Standardized method
of evaluating the newborn's condition immediately after delivery
• Score obtained 1 and 5 minutes after birth
• Over 7 means the baby is healthy
• Under 7 means that the baby isn't doing well
transition period - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -6-8 hours after birth
-Transition from intrauterine to extrauterine life
Initial Assessment - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -skin to skin, vitals,
gestational age, observing abnormalities, measuring, asses passage for
meconium
Supporting Thermoregulation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
evaporation, conduction, convection, radiation
, benefits of skin to skin - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - regulates baby
body temp, heart rate, blood sugar, breathing rate
- relieves stress and calms mother and baby
Ophthalmic Prophylaxis - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ • Eye drops or
ointment containing an antibiotic medication are placed in a newborn's
eyes after birth.
• Used to protect the baby from an unknown gonorrhea infection in the
mother's body
Vitamin K Prophylaxis - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ • Low levels of
vitamin K can lead to dangerous bleeding in newborns and infants
• . The vitamin K given at birth provides protection against bleeding that
could occur because of low levels of this essential vitamin
New born vitals - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ respiratory rate, heart
rate, temperature
Normal respiratory rate : new born - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 30-60
Normal temperature : new born - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 36.5 to
37.5