title: [Experiences with ambulatory delivery].
abstract: This study summarizes the experiences with ambulant delivery in the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Cologne between 1979 and October 1982. The ambulant deliveries during this period were compared with a control group of normal vaginal births in the hospital. There were 211 women in each group. Questionnaires were sent to those women who had ambulant births, and the answers formed an important part of this study. Of all the intended ambulant births, 18.5% had to be refused because of possible complications. The results of the study show that the risks during birth for mother and child in both groups, were identical, and any complications arising were wide and various. In our opinion the main risk is the "Icterus neonatorum". The number of peridural anaesthesia was significantly lower in the ambulant delivery group. From the questionnaires we had a clearly positive reaction to ambulant delivery. For the newborn infant there is a decisive risk, so that ambulant delivery should only be used as an alternative in order to avoid home delivery.
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Erfahrungen mit der ambulanten Geburt.