CE Direct hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Hypertensive disorders affect what percentage of all pregnancies in the US?

40% to 50%

A common medication used to control chronic hypertension during pregnancy is

Aldomet

Behaviors that help to reduce hypertensive disorders are pregnancy are

All of the above

Which nursing actions could cause a safety concern for a patient with precancia on magnesium sulfate

Encouraging the patient to ambulate to reduce the medications adverse effects

A patient is admitted in active labor with a serial BP's of 140 / 96 146 / 92 and 150 / 100. Her urine dipstick is a negative for protein and she denies any other symptoms. She has never had an elevated BP before.The nurse has suspects

Gestational hypertension

What is a theory about the cause of pre-eclampsia

It is a disease of abnormal implantation of the placenta

For patients at a high risk for preeclampsia, has been showing to reduce the risk of developing it by 17%

Low dose aspirin

What contributes to the increasing rates of chronic and gestational hypertension?

Obesity

what should a nurse suspect when a patient with no history of chronic hypertension is admitted at 28 weeks with a BP of 150 /96 and 1+ proteinuria

Preeclampsia

A new onset of proteinurea in a patient who has been diagnosed previously with chronic hypertension is defined as

Preeclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension

The underlying pathophysiology of preeclampsia responsible for the subjective and objective signs of the disease are

Vasospasms and abnormal hemostasis