While teaching a health-promotion class to a group of parents of ...

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While teaching a health-promotion class to a group of parents of children in a Head Start class, the nurse informs the parents that the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S. children is:
 
  1. Hepatitis A.
  2. Dental decay.
  3. Human immunodeficiency virus.
  4. Herpes.

Question 2

In assessing the immediate condition of the newborn after birth, a sample of cord blood may be a useful adjunct to the Apgar score. Cord blood is then tested for pH, carbon dio-xide, oxygen, and base deficit or excess.
 
  Clinical situations that warrant this additional testing include (choose all that apply): a. Low 5 minute Apgar score.
  b. IUGR.
  c. Maternal thyroid disease.
  d. Intrapartum fever.
  e. Multiple gestation.
  f. Abnormal fetal heart rate tracing.

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Answer to Question 1

2
Rationale:
1. By 24 years of age, 17 of U.S. children have already had dental decay, and by the age of 8, 52 of children have experienced dental decay, making this the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S. children.
2. By 24 years of age, 17 of U.S. children have already had dental decay, and by the age of 8, 52 of children have experienced dental decay, making this the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S. children.
3. By 24 years of age, 17 of U.S. children have already had dental decay, and by the age of 8, 52 of children have experienced dental decay, making this the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S. children.
4. By 24 years of age, 17 of U.S. children have already had dental decay, and by the age of 8, 52 of children have experienced dental decay, making this the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S. children.

Answer to Question 2

A, B, C, D, E, F

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Correct ACOG suggests obtaining cord blood values in ALL of these clinical sit-uations. Samples can be drawn from both the umbilical artery and the umbilical vein. Results may indicate that fetal compromise has occurred.
Incor-rect None of the above.