#68: What You Need to Know About Preeclampsia

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🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Preeclampsia is a somewhat common but very dangerous condition that can cause serious, even fatal, consequences for mom and baby. In this podcast episode, you'll learn: What is preeclampsia? What is eclampsia? How is preeclampsia diagnosed? What are the signs/symptoms of preeclampsia? How is it treated? What are the risk factors for preeclampsia? What are the complications? ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! LATTE Method Template - Download the free LATTE Method Template so you can streamline how you study and focus on what a nurse needs to know. Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Straight A Nursing App - Study on-the-go with the Straight A Nursing app! Review more than 5,000 flashcards covering a wide range of subjects including Fundamentals, Pediatrics, Med Surg, Mental Health, Maternal Newborn, and more! Available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Terms apply, C3.co. UK. Hey everyone it is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:46.0	podcast today we are on episode 68 and we're talking about pre-Eclampsia.
0:53.2	So a couple weeks back, I mentioned that I'm going to start rounding out
0:58.1	the library of episodes a bit more, talking about OB,
1:02.1	talking about PEDs, talking about mental health, so it's not always
1:05.3	just adult med surge. So I hope that you find this helpful and you're as excited about it as I am.
1:11.8	So pre-Eclamsia, what is it? So pre-Eclamsia is the precursor to Eclamsia. So Eclamsia is this very serious often fatal condition and pregnancy where
1:26.7	uncontrolled hypertension causes mom to have seizures. So pre-Eclamsia refers to that hypertensive state during pregnancy or the post-partum period that
1:38.9	precedes the eclamsia episode.
1:42.8	So we'll start by talking about how it's diagnosed
1:46.3	and then we'll move into what the criteria are,
1:50.5	the signs and symptoms, how it's treated, and the risk factors and complications.
1:58.0	So first we're going to start by talking about how it is diagnosed.
2:02.0	So the hallmark signs of pre-Clamia is
2:06.2	hypertension with proteinuria. However, A-Cog, which is the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, no longer
2:16.7	require proteinuria as part of the diagnostic criteria. But just know that your exams and your textbooks sometimes things aren't as up to date as
2:27.4	current guidelines. So your exam, your professor, all of it may say, hypertension with protein in the urine.
2:36.1	So if they're telling you that, you go with that.
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