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What is the normal temperature range of an infant?
If you have a baby out of its normal range what 2 things would you be thinking it has? |
97.7 to 99.1
Cold stress Sepsis |
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What is the normal respiratory rate of an infant?
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30 to 60 breaths per min
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What is the normal heart rate of an infant?
If your resting baby has a heart rate of 160 what are you suspecting? |
120 to 160 beats per min
Sepsis |
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How many wet diapers should we get from a newborn the first 2 days?
How many wet diapers after that? |
1 to 2 wet diapers each day of the first 2 days of life
6 wet diapers per day after that |
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How does wet diapers relate to skin integrity?
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Change them quickly to avoid skin integrity breakdown
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How does G.I. elimination relate to jaundice?
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We want a baby feeding to excrete the bilirubin from their bodies (yellow stools) to prevent jaundice
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What are the 5 parameters we check for Apgars?
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Heart rate
Breathing Reflexes Muscle tone Color Heart rate: absent, less than 100, or greater than 100 Respiratory Rate: Apneic, Weak, or Regular Reflex irritability: No response, some response, facial grimace Muscle tone: Flaccid, some flexion, or good flexion Color: Blue, pink with blue extremities, or pink |
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Which babies do we need to check chord blood for?
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Babies of moms who are O or Rh negative
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What is the two types of coombs tests?
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Direct is when we test the babies blood for maternal antibodies
Indirect is when we test moms blood for maternal antibodies |
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At what infant glucose level would we intervene? What would we do?
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40 to 45 blood glucose level
We would feed the baby |
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What are we making sure the baby can do with a newborn screen?
What is this condition called? |
That they can metabolize protein (pku)
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Which babies more at risk for bilirubin?
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LGA due to trauma at delivery (bruising)
Blood type issues where RBC's are lysed Any baby not feeding right away |
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What are the nursince actions once lights are ordered?
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Lights 10 - 25 inches away
Eyes covered Checking stool color |
