Assessment of rewarming methods in unplanned out-of-hospital births from a prospective cohort.

Background: Mobile intensive care units frequently manage unplanned out-of-hospital births (UOHB). Rewarming methods during pre-hospital management of UOHB have not yet been compared. The aim was to compare rewarming methods used during pre-hospital management in a large prospective cohort of UOHB in France.

Unplanned out-of-hospital birth and risk factors of adverse perinatal outcome: findings from a prospective cohort.

Background: In France, while most babies are delivered at hospital, emergency medical services (EMS) weekly manage calls for unplanned out-of-hospital births. The objective of our study was to describe neonatal morbidity and mortality, defined as death or neonatal intensive care unit hospitalization at Day 7, in a prospective multicentric cohort of unplanned out-of-hospital births.

Methods: We prospectively analyzed out-of-hospital births from 25 prehospital EMS units in France.