The nurse is caring for a client at 35 weeks' gestation who has been critically injured in a shooting. Which statement by the paramedics bringing the woman to the hospital should cause the greatest concern?
1. Blood pressure 110/68, pulse 90.
2. Clear fluid is leaking from the vagina.
3. Client is positioned in a left lateral tilt.
4. Entrance wound present below the umbilicus.
Question 2
Which situation in the high-risk antepartal unit requires immediate intervention?
1. Fetal monitoring is being performed on a client in her third trimester who is scheduled for a cholecystectomy tomorrow.
2. A third-trimester client pregnant with twins who required an appendectomy yesterday is positioned in a supine position.
3. Oxygen is being administered at 2 L via nasal cannula to a client in her third trimester who underwent a urolithotomy today.
4. The client in her third trimester who returned from bowel resection surgery has a nasogastric tube attached to intermittent suction.
A client is having an endoscopy performed by a physician who views the upper gastrointestinal intern
fetus 12 weeks
nurse
(A) Unwrap each of the layers until the client is covered by just the plastic sheet and the towels ...
Position the client
Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients, Centers for Disease Control, 2011