Abstract
A survey of 8½ years of perinatal mortality records from the Methodist Hospital of Dallas is presented. The presentation is motivated by the slow decline of perinatal mortality in the United States since 1950 and the lag of this decline behind that of western Europe. The survey encompasses 28,313 births and 689 perinatal deaths. Immaturity is found to be the largest single category and also to be associated with all other categories in 66 per cent of the deaths. The question is raised of a relationship between the increasing number of deaths from respiratory distress in the immature neonate and the amount of sedation and type of anesthesia used during premature labor and delivery.
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