Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
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High-Risk Newborn Nursing Care — Maternal & Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing & Childrearing Family▶ 30:32For the nursing plan for an SGA baby, what specific breeding risk do they face that differs from a preterm infantBecause the anoxia happen in utero, they are at high risk for meconium aspiration syndrome, or MASHypoxia often causes the fetus to release meconium and gaspLabour & Birth Complications — Perry's Maternal Child Nursing Care in Canada▶ 32:53What is the management strategy regarding induction timingPatients should be offered labor induction between 41 and 42 weeks, as this intervention has been shown to reduce perinatal mortality and…It's an effective risk reduction toolNewborn Health Problems & High-Risk Conditions — Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing▶ 18:55And because there's less amniotic fluid in a post -term pregnancy, that meconium is thick, like pea soupIf they gasp and inhale that, we get meconium aspiration syndrome, which is a severe respiratory emergencyWe'll circle back to that aspiration in a minute