[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.
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