Abstract:Delivery in a hospital on an outpatient basis is increasingly accepted in obstetrics. In West Berlin about 15% of the mothers consider this as desirable, and about 10% actually utilize it. Delivery at home, which is associated with safety hazards, is getting less frequent. Since the problem of disturbed adaptation of the infant can be quite difficult, the method of choice is the easily manageable noninvasive monitoring of heart and respiratory frequency of the newborn during the first hour after birth. This ca… Show more
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