TORCH Infections Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet covers preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, including pathophysiology, risk factors, monitoring, interventions and teaching, and complications. It explains how impaired renal perfusion leads to proteinuria, fluid retention, rapid weight gain, and new-onset edema.

This cheat sheet covers preterm labor, PTL interventions, and preterm newborn care. It emphasizes monitoring risk factors like infection and uterine overstretching, and teaching clients with contractions before 37 weeks to stop activity, lie on their side, hydrate, and call their HCP.

This cheat sheet covers obstetric history, signs of pregnancy, adaptations to pregnancy, and common discomforts of pregnancy with client teaching. It explains how gestation is calculated from the last menstrual period and divided into trimesters.

This cheat sheet covers chorioamnionitis and neonatal sepsis. It explains how bacteria like GBS ascend from the vaginal tract to infect the amniotic sac, and how chorioamnionitis increases the newborn's risk for sepsis.

This cheat sheet covers ectopic and molar pregnancy. It explains how an ectopic pregnancy implants outside the uterus, most often in the fallopian tube, and risk factors like prior tubal surgery and STIs.

This cheat sheet covers the principles of fetal monitoring, fetal heart rate characteristics, and FHR monitoring patterns. It explains how to tell reassuring from non-reassuring patterns and when to start intrauterine resuscitation.