[How much labor assistance should the emergency physician render?]. / Wieviel Geburtshilfe soll ein Notarzt leisten?

Seven case reports of emergency obstetrics serve to demonstrate to what extent an emergency physician can be of help and where the limits of his field of activities are. The article describes the emergency physician's tasks in general as well as the education and training which may reasonably be expected in young physicians. It is concluded, among other things, that it is not one of the tasks of an emergency physician to supervise or initiate parturition since that is no longer part of the physician's training in the FRG.