Are you working as a health professional? Do you have any idea about the puerperium or puerperal period? Attempt these multiple-choice questions on puerperium and evaluate how well you know about this maternal period. The puerperium, also known as the postpartum period, is a six-week period after childbirth during which the mother's hormones return to their normal state. Play the below quiz and learn more about the postpartum period in detail to make your medical career successful. All the best!
Decreased activity
Decrease in plasma chorionic somatomammotropin [hCS or human placental lactogen (hPL)]
Decrease in plasma estrogen
Decrease in plasma progesterone
increased food intake
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Cholecystitis
Endometritis
Mastitis
Pneumonia
Thrombophlebitis
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At the level of the symphysis pubis
Boggy
Discoid
Firm and rounded
Immobile
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Acute tubular necrosis (ATN)
Amenorrhea-galactorrhea syndrome
Asherman’s syndrome (uterine synechiae)
Pituitary tumor
Sheehan’s syndrome (pituitary necrosis)
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Ovarian cyst
Ruptured uterus
Second twin
Uterine inversion
Vaginal rupture
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Coagulopathies
Retained placental fragments
Uterine atony
Uterine rupture
Vaginal lacerations
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Depo-Provera
Frequent suckling
High dose (≥50 μ gestradiol) oral contraceptive pills
Levonorgestrel intrauterine device (IUD)
Progestin-only oral contraceptive pill (minipill)
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First-degree
Second-degree
Third-degree
fourth-degree
Complete
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G < 200mL
Approximately 350 mL
Approximately 550 mL
Approximately 750 mL
approximately 1,000 mL
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aerobic Streptococcus
Anaerobic Streptococcus
E. coli
Neisseria
Staphylococcus aureus
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Dilation and curettage (D&C)
Ergotrate
High doses of estrogen
High doses of progesterone
Uterine packing
Delivery of the infant
exploratory laparotomy
Immediate hysterectomy
Immediate replacement of the fundus
massive blood transfusion
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Coitus during late pregnancy
Iron deficiency
Maternal exhaustion
Poor nutrition
Tissue trauma
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Breast binding, ice packs, and analgesics
Bromocriptine
Deladumone
Depo-Provera
Oral contraceptive pills
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Decidua capsularis
Decidua vera
Zona basalis
zona functionalis
Zona spongiosa
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Arterial
Direct extension
Fomites
Lymphatic
Venous
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Coagulopathies
Retained placental fragments
Uterine atony
Uterine rupture
Vaginal and/or cervical lacerations
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Breast milk is a major source of immunoglobulin G (IgG).
Most ingested drugs that are soluble in maternal blood do not cross into breast milk.
Mother’s milk contains a large amount of iron.
The postpartum period of lactation is a time of above-normal fertility.
Prolactin stimulates milk production and breast development.
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Parametritis
Peritonitis
Phlebothrombosis
Pyemia
Thrombophlebitis
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B-Lynch suture
D&C
Ergotrate
packing the uterus
Prostaglandin F2 (PFG2)-alpha
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Discontinue prenatal vitamins
No driving for 4 weeks
No coitus for 6 weeks
Return to work only after 6 weeks of maternity leave
Rubella immunization for nonimmune patients
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After the loss of 750 cc of blood
Before giving other volume expanders
Before using prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)-alpha
If the patient becomes hypotensive despite other volume expanders
When packed cell volume (PCV) is
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Abdominal rigidity
Leukocytosis of 16,000
Proteinuria
A pulse rate of 60
A single temperature of 100.4°F
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Arterial blood gas
Auscultation of the chest
Chest x-ray
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
spiral computed tomography (CT) scan
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Anesthesia
Edema
Emotions
Hematoma
Overdistention of the bladder
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Bacteroides
Beta-streptococcus
Escherichia coli
Gonococcus
Staphylococcus
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Beta-streptococcus
Clostridium
E. coli
Peptococcus
Peptostreptococcus
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