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Throughout pregnancy, prenatal visits will include routine blood pressure

measurements and urine tests to screen for preeclampsia.

Medical management: -

• In mild pre-eclampsia, gestational age 36 weeks or greater, the

patient treat by IV magnesium sulfate and oxytocin to induce labour.

• In mild pre-eclampsia the fetus immature, hospitalize the patient to

stabilize the disease until maturation without harming the mother

health.

• In severe case anticonvulsant and antihypertensive agent is

provided, frequently evaluation of maternal and fetal well-being.

Then induce labor according to the mother condition.

• If there is bleeding tendency, fresh frozen plasma and packed RBCs

are usually transfused.

Nursing Interventions for Preeclampsia & Treatment

To help us take everything we learned about the patho and signs and

symptoms and incorporate it with the nursing interventions and treatment,

let’s remember the word:

“PREECLAMPSIA”

Proteinuria monitoring: check urine for protein at every prenatal visit

(some women may be taught to do this at home with a dipstick test):

Labs to remember:

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