1. Doctor may consider for early indiction of labour as peak value indicates severe anemia in fetus
2. Reason for false positive test is if there is meconium inside the womb, in case of fetal acidosis
reason for false negative result if sample is exposed to light or volume of amniotic fluid is excessive.
3. Other consideration in inducing labor may be to check lung maturity of fetus.
4. lecithin sphingomyelin ratio is normal showing lung maturity so physician may go with induction of labor
5. dopler ultrasound may be done to check blood flow to baby ‘s brain and this can tell about anaemia and how severe is that
6. tests other than L S test:
Case #5 Amniocentesis is performed on a woman believed to be in 35th week of gestation....
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Surgical Case #66 Procedure Performed: Reason for Procedure Amniocentesis The patient is a 32 yearold white female who is gravida 5 intrauterine pregnancy at 36-4/7 weeks gestation. prodromal labor. She has gestational diabetes mellitus and an suggesting fetal weight of greater than 10 poundsultrasound quite unco be delivered. In view of the gestational diabetes requiring insulin I feel it important to document fetal lung maturity in a more or less elective She was admitted in patient has been...
A 28-year-old woman is pregnant for the second time, having miscarried a year ago. At the time she miscarried, she was working as a volunteer in Haiti and did not seek medical care. Her doctor is concerned that the baby that she is carrying now may have hemolytic disease due to Rh incompatibility. She also has diabetes. She has an increase in optical density at 450 nm on her amniotic fluid screen with a Liley graph reading of 0.6 and...
Case Study #5 A 33-year-old multigravid woman (gravida 3; para 1) presented in week 11 of her fourth pregnancy. Her first pregnancy had been uneventful and this child was now 13 years old. Her second and third pregnancies had ended with dead hydropic fetuses at 36 and 23 weeks respectively. A rising level of antibody to the D antigen of the Rhesus blood group had been noted in each pregnancy, but no treatment had been available. The patient's Rhesus blood...
Week 5
Discussion Group - Case Study #1
A full term female
neonate was born to a 21-year-old woman. The baby was found to have
icterus at 4 hr. after birth. Upon noticing this, several
laboratory tests were ordered.
The patient Patient's
blood smear
Normal Blood smear for
comparison
Laboratory Test
Results:
The neonate’s red
cells typed B, Rh+, while the mother’s red cells typed O, Rh=.
A blood smear showed
changes typical of hemolysis.
A screen for...
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