Neonatal Resuscitation Chapter 5 Quiz

Select the best response from the answer choices following each question.

1. A nurse has received a newly born boy born at 29 weeks gestation. The baby is apneic, bradycardic, and cyanotic. What is the first course of action for this patient?

2. Which of the following is the best instrument to clear the secretions from the mouth and nose of a newborn patient?

3. Delayed cord clamping is a routine practice in some healthcare institutions when delivering a newborn because it is associated with a reduction in which one of the following medical conditions?

4. What is the maximum recommended time for delay in cord clamping of a vigorous newly born?

5. Which one of the following can be used to assess the maturational age of a newly born?

6. Rapid rewarming of newborn patients:

7. What is the expected timeframe for performing he initial steps in newborn resuscitation?

8. What intervention involves drying and placing the newly born with the mother to initiate skin-to-skin contact?

9. Which one of the following is a benefit of delayed cord clamping?

10. Which of the following questions should the team ask to complete the rapid assessment?

11. Why is measuring oxygen saturation in the left upper or lower extremities a poor representation of the arterial oxygen status of the newly born?