In the past decade fetal heart rate monitoring has become a generally ac cepted method for fetal surveillance during pregnancy and labor. Although its importance has been doubted recently, I personally feel that this method has become an important obstetric tool. It has not only improved our knowledge about fetal behavior and fetal condition throughout gesta tion, but it has especially improved fetal surveillance during labor; the most dangerous period of human life has never been as safe as nowadays. The only people who can question the advantage of fetal heart rate moni toring are those who...

an adequate oxygen supply is vital for the undisturbed development of the fetus and its functions. This book gives a synopsis of the ruling influence that oxygen has in multiple regulation sytems in the mother and especially in the fetus. The authors consider oxygen as a manipulated variable or as a corrective element during normal pregnancy, during delivery and during acute and chronic oxygen deficiency. Furthermore, they deal with the consequences that oxygen deficiency has on the fetus.

Die Beitrage zum 51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Gynakologie und Geburtshilfe, die als Plenarveranstaltungen, Referate, Seminare oder als industrieassoziierte Symposien dargeboten wurden, sind in diesem Band schriftlich niedergelegt. Die Vorsitzenden der einzelnen Veranstaltungen, namhafte Vertreter der verschiedenen Fachgebiete, haben zusatzlich zu den Diskussionen auch Zusammenfassungen verfasst. So spiegelt der Kongressband den aktuellen Wissensstand der Forschung und Praxis auf den Gebieten Gynakologie/Onkologie, Geburtshilfe/Perinatologie und...