Decelerations Defined Decelerations are categorized as early‚ late‚ variable‚ or prolonged. FHR decelerations are defined according to their visual relationship to the onset and end of a contraction and by their shape. Early decelerations Visually apparent gradual decrease in and return to the baseline FHR associated with uterine contractions. The onset‚ nadir‚ and recovery of the deceleration generally correspond to the beginning‚ peak‚ and end of the contraction. Early decelerations are thought
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Prenatal screening Screening for Down syndrome is available to about 53.5% of mothers on a maternal age basis‚ and the remaining 46.5% of health boards provide serum screening for all ages. There are several methods used in prenatal screening‚ these are usually used separately‚ and a number of factors are taken into account to determine which method should be used. Amniocentesis has been around for 20 years and is probably the most well known screening method. It involves testing a sample of the
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“Risky Baby Business: Causes and Effects” In this paper‚ I am going to focus on a couple high risk topics that can cause birth defects in an unborn child. I will discuss the effects of smoking‚ alcohol consumption‚ illicit drugs and prescription drug use. Letting people know more of the causes and outcomes of these examples is important because children are always our future and if birth defects and death can be prevented‚ should we not present hardship to them even before their first
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Illicit Drug Use During Pregnancy Nicole Sanchez Illicit Drug Use during Pregnancy Drug exploitation in pregnancy is an elaborate public health problem with conceivably serious conflicting effects for the mother‚ the fetus and spreading to the developing child. When a mother becomes pregnant‚ it is important to her baby’s health that she has a healthy lifestyle. This includes eating plenty of nourishing foods‚ getting a decent amount of rest and exercising normally. For
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Imagine a person sitting on the operation table‚ a doctor being the procedure‚ to abort their unborn child. They can hear the baby screaming and crying in pain. Would they then still support abortion? There has been a large debate over many years of the two conflicting values. The right of a woman to decide for herself whether or not she should end her pregnancy versus protecting a vulnerable human life. The biggest disagreement to stir this argument is whether or not an embryo is a human being while
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with any other age group. While this is a problem within itself already‚ the problem worsens when a woman who was already abusing drugs gets pregnant. It should be assumed that taking drugs during a pregnancy is extremely dangerous‚ not only to the fetus but also to the mother. Pregnancy is proven to be harsh on the mother’s body‚ but when illicit substances are added to the equation there is a different set of complications involved. The purpose of this paper is to inform the general public of the
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of bioethical dilemmas that a physician is charged with confronting. The act of inducing abortion is a controversial subject that involves many potentially competing factors such as an individual’s moral and religious compass‚ what rights an unborn fetus has and the rights that a woman has over her own body. In the case of a 16 year-old girl who is pregnant as a result of incest and seeking an abortion‚ my role as the practitioner would be to put the health of the patient first - above all personal
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are several different methods to having an abortion‚ all of these methods are separated into three different groups—surgical abortion‚ medical abortion‚ and chemical abortion. Surgical abortion is a procedure that ends a pregnancy by removing the fetus and placenta from the mother’s womb. Many of the
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Having started in utero‚ the fetus was already experiencing a lack of care and welfare that is vital in the earliest stages of development. Drug and alcohol in utero can have devastating cognitive‚ emotional‚ and physical outcomes for a child‚ which in this case‚ stand true. A lack of quality prenatal care‚ such as taking the correct vitamins or regular checkups with a doctor are vital to ensure that the fetus receives the necessary nutrients it needs to grow. This mother‚ along with heavy drinking
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Taylor Brown My Speech against Abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. Abortions can occur spontaneously or induced. Spontaneous abortions are medically considered “miscarriages” and Induced abortion is when you remove the fetus from out of the uterus or embryo before it has a chance to fully develop and survive outside of the female’s uterus. There is a major argument between many people in the United States on abortion. Many argue that abortion is wrong because unborn babies are
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