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A patient comes in for her first prenatal appointment. She does not know the first day of her last menstrual period, so you are not able to determine a specific gestational age. You plan to send her for an ultrasound. In the meantime, however, she does report that she knows that she has not had a menstrual period for at least 4 months. Which of the following is accurate in providing some general understanding as to gestational age?

Which of the following is accurate patient education to help prevent shaken baby syndrome and abusive head trauma?

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Two important principles when assessing evidence are:

A patient presents for a routine prenatal exam complaining of nausea and vomiting, flank pain, dysuria and urinary urgency. Vitals are normal except for a temperature of 102 degrees. Urine dipstick is positive for infection. What are the best next steps?

A patient presents to the emergency department with placental abruption at 31 weeks 5 days gestation. In addition to stabilizing the mother and checking labs, medications are given to help the baby’s condition. Which of the following would NOT be given in this scenario?

According to the oracle at Delphi, Socrates is…

Someone who believes that the best way to understand the real world is via our sense-experiences is called:

A patient presents with excessive nausea and vomiting (hyperemesis gravidarum) with heavy vaginal bleeding with the expulsion of grape-like clusters. Her vitals are normal, except that her blood pressure is 160/110 mm Hg. She has a negative history for hypertension. She says that she did a home pregnancy test a few weeks ago and the results were positive. Her current gestational age is 8 weeks 2 days. You collect a serum B-hCG and the results are extremely high, (well over 100,000). Urine dipstick shows positive protein. From this information alone, your most likely diagnosis is:

A patient presents for a routine prenatal appointment at 32 weeks gestation. Her pregnancy has progressed normally with no complications. Which of the following options is a correct list of evaluations that would be performed at this appointment?