OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY

Geburtshilflicher Notfall

In obstetrics there are two patients to care for instead of one,

a mother and a baby or fetus. The management of one patient

heavily affects the management of the other. Sometimes the

decision has to be made to care for one patient at the expense of

the other; i.e., care for the mother frst. The second patient (the

fetus) may be viable or not.