[Water birth. Clinical and practical advice].
Water labor and/or birth are more and more requested and with the increased number of pregnant women choosing water-birth it is necessary to define advice for a safe use of this method of birth-assistance, in order to prevent any possible connected complication. The criteria for admission or exclusion to water labor and/or birth, correlated with maternal-fetal clinical aspects, hygienic aspects, legal-medicine aspects, are indicated. The structural, technical, organizing, specific requirements, in addition those of every delivery room, and considered important for water birth places, are underlined.
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Divisione di Ginecologia ed Ostetricia, Ospedale di Bolzano, Italy.
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D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007101:Immersion; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D014867:Water
D014867:Water