Anesthesiology

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Abstract
Infant ResuscitationThe provision of a painless labor for the mother is always accompanied by the possibility of respiratory depression of the newborn infant by anesthetic agents. Obstetric complications in addition to prematurity and malformation of the newborn can interfere with normal respiratory and circulatory functions, and are responsible for many neonatal complications and deaths. The value of most methods of infant resuscitation has not been on a secure basis since gross survival rates have been the only clinical measure of success or failure. To establish objectively the condition of the newborn Apgar142 proposed a new method of clinical evaluation. . . .