Clinical Assessment Study Set 1

What range of gestational age in weeks is considered term?

Which of the following conditions is associated with an infant born early in gestation?

You are looking in the chart of your patient, and in the maternal history, you see the following: G3, P2, Ab0. Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following is part of the biophysical evaluation of a fetus performed by ultrasound?

What do the L/S ratio and phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) levels assess?

What Apgar parameter usually deteriorates first in a hypoxic infant?

Infants who need extensive medical resuscitation at birth will have Apgar scores in the range of:

What does the Ballard examination of a newborn infant assess?

Which of the following is a common cause of hypothermia in an infant?

What is the upper limit of the normal range for the heart rate in the newborn?

Which of the following are typical causes of tachypnea in the newborn? 1) Hypothermia 2) Hypoxemia 3) Respiratory acidosis 4) Pain

What is the upper limit for normal systolic blood pressure in the term newborn?

What is indicated by the presence of retractions in the newborn?

What is the significance of "grunting" in an infant?

What is indicated by a capillary refill greater than 3 s in the infant?

What effect does abdominal distention have on respiration?

An infant's entire right hemithorax "lights up" during transillumination. What does this signify?

What is the normal leukocyte count for newborns?

What is the likely diagnosis of leukopenia in an infant?

Why is it so important to quickly identify a low blood glucose level in a newborn?