Synthetic oxytocin is a clear liquid containing man-made oxytocin, one of the hormones that plays a vital in the labor process, which is being injected in a mother's body if she's having problems in doing labor.
The doctor gave Tokiko a dose inorder to aid her in the labor process, as she was nearing to give birth. It could be that labour has not started naturally or her uterus is too weak to push the baby out. The oxytocin injected in her body is to strengthen the contraction of her uterus.
The dose of the medicine is adjusted until the contractions produced are in a similar pattern to that of natural labour.
However, this medicine, as beneficial as it seems, could case side effects which could affect both the mother and baby in different ways. Allergy attacks, headaches, nausea and vomiting are commonly observed after intake. Too much dose could cause very strong contractions of the womb that could result in tearing of the womb or tissue damage. It could also result in distress, suffocation or death of the baby.
I would say ( b ) because you need to see what you already know before the experience and then show how much you learned by doing another assessment after the experience
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They do a blood patch. A little amount of blood is taken from the patient and the anesthesiologist injects the blood at the site of the original puncture. A blood clot is established and it stops the leaking of cerebrospinal fluid. Loss of CSF causes the headache and when the puncture site is patched CSF stops leaking and the headache goes away.
