Labor

For this quiz, you need to revisit labor.

Useful books include the following:

McCall Sellers PA, Dippenaar J, De Sera D 2012: Sellers’ Midwifery, second edition, Juta Cape Town
Marshall J, Raynor M & Nolte A 2016: Myles Textbook for Midwives, African edition. Elsevier publishers
Guidelines for Maternity Care in South Africa, Department of Health, 2015

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Answer as many questions as you can, at the end of the Quiz you will receive a Memorandum with your provided answers, as well as possible correct answers. The Memorandum will also be sent to the email address you provide. Have fun!

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Supply the corrects Answers to the following:

1. Identify the cervix that is completely effaced: (1)

2. Approximately how many centimeters does circle A below measure? (1)

3. Explain why the head of the fetus must rotate in the birth canal to be born. (2)

4. List the seven cardinal movements of the fetus through the birth process to delivery. (7)

5. What is the average blood loss during the third stage of labor? (1)

6. What are three reasons why an episiotomy may be done as the fetal head crowns? (3)

7. After the placenta is expelled, in what condition should the uterus be? (1)

8. The widest transverse diameter of the fetal skull is: (1)

9. When the long axis of the fetus is parallel to the long axis of the mother, the lie is called: (1)

10. Approximately how many centimeters does the circle B below measure? (1)

11. Look at the included pictures of the fetal skull. Match Column A with Column B.

Column A
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F

Column B
a. ROA
b. ROP
c. LOA
d. LOP
e. ROT
f. LOT

Write the number in Column A with the correct letter from Column B next to it, e.g. 1. f ...