Scope contract: what this book owns, borrows, and refuses
Ownership boundary bar: one horizontal bar split into three segments sized to the real page allocation, OWNS widest, DOES NOT COVER narrowest.
SCOPE CONTRACT
| OWNS | BORROWS | DOES NOT COVER |
|---|---|---|
| Antepartum period; prenatal screening and diagnostic testing | Reference ranges and critical values, printed here only inside a clinical sentence → BOOK 07 · P4 | Any pediatric content past the newborn period → BOOK 13 · P2 |
| The physiologic changes of pregnancy that move normal values | Every calculation, including magnesium sulfate and oxytocin infusions → BOOK 06 · P3 | Treatment of postpartum depression and all psychiatric pharmacology → BOOK 14 · P3; this book stops at screening and referral |
| Hypertensive disorders: gestational hypertension, preeclampsia with and without severe features, eclampsia, HELLP | Drug class logic and adverse effect patterns for uterotonics, tocolytics, and antihypertensives → BOOK 05 · P9 | Laboratory values as tables → BOOK 07 · P4 |
| Gestational diabetes | The clinical judgment step names and next-generation item mechanics → BOOK 02 · P5 | Worked math of any kind → BOOK 06 · P3 |
| Placenta previa and abruptio placentae | Shock physiology behind obstetric hemorrhage → BOOK 09 · P7 | Blood product administration procedure → BOOK 15 · P6 |
| Preterm labor | Infection precautions and isolation → BOOK 04 · P4 | |
| Stages and mechanisms of labor | General test-taking strategy and the countdown → BOOK 16 · P2 | |
| Fetal heart rate monitoring on the NICHD three-tier system, all four deceleration patterns, and intrauterine resuscitation | ||
| Cord prolapse, uterine rupture, shoulder dystocia, amniotic fluid embolism | ||
| Postpartum assessment and postpartum hemorrhage | ||
| Postpartum infection and thromboembolism | ||
| Postpartum depression screening and referral | ||
| Newborn transition and the first hours; Apgar scoring; gestational age assessment; jaundice; thermoregulation; feeding and discharge teaching |
Legend. crit a delay causes harm within minutes. watch a finding that changes management. ok the keyed or correct response. --mut context only, not tested. Yellow swipe marks the sentence the exam writes items from. Pink swipe marks the reversal candidates make. Note devices used in this book: margin note, watch out, memory hook, takeaway, pointer chip, tick box, caveat.
Margin notethose two pages are the map. This is the terrain. → BOOK 01 · P53 and → BOOK 01 · P54
Takeawaythis book answers two questions, is the fetus tolerating what is happening to the mother, and is the newborn completing transition, and it sends every number, every calculation, and every drug class somewhere else.