[Tetanus and pregnancy. Labor with assisted respiration].

The authors report a rare case in which tetanus occurred with a pregnancy near term. In this particular case of pregnancy with risk for the fetus and mother associated with one another, curative treatment with monitoring of the state of the fetus and assisted respiration for the mother resulted in the birth of a live child who could be brought up normally and a cure for the mother without having to resort to caesarean section.

[The procedure to be adopted in cases of breech presentation: use of the vacuum extractor].

The authors review the advantages of a non-standard method of extraction in cases of breech presentation, the vacuum extractor. This method should not only replace total extraction in cases of frank breech, but should also find much wider applications. In fact the technique, which is easily applied and always effective, permits extraction in cases of frank breech by the vaccum cup at the stage of complete dilatation, preferably when the breech is well engaged, without serious complications.