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Book 2 Unit 2

Select the one best answer to each question (unless otherwise instructed). Record your answers on the test.
In a woman being treated for obstetric hemorrhage, decreasing urine output suggests blood is being lost from her vascular system.
Cesarean delivery is the recommended route of delivery when a placenta previa is present, even if no bleeding has occurred.
A woman who had a placental abruption with one pregnancy has an increased risk for having another placental abruption with a subsequent pregnancy.
Even with fetal death, in severe cases of placental abruption cesarean delivery of the dead fetus may be necessary to reduce maternal morbidity.
Placenta accreta is more common with placenta previa.
The most common cause of postpartum hemorrhage is disseminated intravascular coagulation .
Placental abruption can usually be prevented.
Steady, slow, persistent bleeding postpartum suggests uterine atony.
Placental abruption
When late-pregnancy placental bleeding occurs
Which of the following parameters would be especially important to check in a baby whose mother had a bleeding placenta previa?
   
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Maternal tachycardia and decreasing blood pressure are early signs of placental abruption.
With certain types of obstetric hemorrhage, blood loss may occur internally and is not externally visible.
With certain types of obstetric hemorrhage, blood loss may occur internally and is not externally visible.
Any bleeding during pregnancy requires investigation.
Disseminated intravascular coagulation can develop with placental abruption or HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzyme levels, and /ow platelet count) syndrome.
An Rh(D)-negative woman had an episode of significant bleed­ ing at 10 weeks of gestation and received Rh immunoglobulin at that time. At 25 weeks of gestatio n, she has another episode of bleeding. She should receive Rh immunoglobulin again, within 72 hours of the bleeding.
Which of the following is most likely to be associated with postpartum hemorrhage?
All of the following statements about ectopic pregnancy are accurate , except
All of the following findings are generally an indication of placental abruption, except
Which of the following actions should you take first when postpartum hemorrhage is detected?
All of the following conditions increase the risk for placenta previa, except