Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2015
Abstract
Perinatal and neonatal care are very important expecially for endangered and pathological pregnancies and newborn endangered perinatally. Perinatology includes the care of the pregnant woman, fetus and newborn during the development of the fetus through the birth, as well as the postpartum period, specifically during early and late neonatal period, i.e. 28 days after birth.
Infectious disease related to pregnancy are transmitted in three ways in general: through the placenta during pregnancy, perinatally during the labor either by aspiration of amniotic fluid, or by inoculation of infectious agents into the skin or mucosa of a child, or in mother's milk during nursing.