[Emergency childbirth outside the hospital setting]

Although not frequently sanitary personnel who form part of the outside the hospital walls emergency medical services, the intensive care mobile units or ambulance teams, are obliged to attend to emergency childbirths in adverse environments and with precarious technical means or means non-specialized means. All this requires some special considerations at various levels: parturient, fetus and the scene itself. Medical emergency personnel must be prepared to diagnose an imminent childbirth in situ and to identify every stage of such a birth and its possible complications, while providing integral, yet specific, assistance before, during and after childbirth.