OBGYN Questions with Correct Answers

OB/GYN Questions with Correct Answers (Critical Care Course 2023)

All of the following are functions of the placenta Excet:

• Supplying the developing fetus with maternal blood
• Serving as a protective barrier
• Transferring heat and nutrients to the developing fetus
• Secreting estrogen and progesterone required to maintain pregnancy - Correct

Answer A Which statement about the umbilical cord is true?

• The umbilical cord is approzimately six feet long
• It has two veins and one artery
• Arteries connect it to the material circulation and supply nutrients to the fetus
• The umbilical vein supplies oxygenated blood to the fetus - Correct Answer D

Which of the following statements regarding maternal phytsiological changes during pregnancy is true?

• renal blood flow decreases
• Progesterone causes a decrease in airway resistance
• The mother's respiratory rate increases significantly
• Maternal blood volume increases - Correct Answer B

The period of gestation from eight weeks until delivery of the infant is the ____ Stage

• Fetal
• embryonic
• Confinement
• Pre-embryonic - Correct Answer A

The time before birth is the _____ period.

• Prenatal
• Embryonic
• Confinement
• Pre-embryonic - Correct Answer A

All of the following general information pertains ot the evaluation of an obsterical patient

except:

• name of the father
• Estimated date of confinement
• History of obsterical complications 1 / 2

• Prenatal care - Correct Answer A

The stage of labor that begins with the onset of contractions and that ends with

complete cervical dilation and effacement is known as:

• Puerperium
• Expulsioin
• Placental
• Dilatation - Correct Answer D

Emergency care providers should assume that any female of childbearing age with

lower abdominal pain is experiencing:

• an ectopic pregnancy
• a spontaneous abortion
• a ruptured ovarian cyst
• mittelschmertz - Correct Answer A

Third-trimester painless bleeding should be attributed to:

• Supine hypotensive disorder
• Spontaneous abortion
• Placenta previa
• Ectopic pregnancy - Correct Answer C

The premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall is termed:

A: Spontaneous placentae

• Abruptio placentae
• Placenta previa
• Concealed placentae. - Correct Answer B

Factors indicating imminent delivery include all of the following except:

• Presence of crowning
• Frequency of contractions
• Number of previous pregancies
• Rupture of the bag of waters` - Correct Answer D

All of the following are considered obsterical equipment excet:

• Sterile gloves
• Umbilical clamps or ties
• Merconium aspirator
• OB drapes - Correct Answer C
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