[Analysis of very underweight newborn infants (less than 1,500 g) 1972-1982. Epidemiologic aspects, labor presentation, position and adjustment, method of delivery and mortality]. / Analyse der sehr untergewichtigen Neugeborenen (less than 1500 g) von 1972-1982. Epidemiologische Gesichtspunkte, Geburtslage, -haltung und -einstellung, Entbindungsmodus und Mortalität.

Infants with a very low birthweight (less than 1500 g) have a fundamental influence on perinatal mortality and mortality of babies up to one year also nowadays. The epidemiological role of different signs of risk in the context of the birth of these children is presented. The total mortality of the infants with a very low birthweight (less than 1500 g) was 64,4%. Usually there were combinations of factors, which caused the death of the infants. Complications of secundinae, immaturity and malformations were the substantial factors of lethality of the stillbirths. At the mortality of babies there were intracranial bleedings and immaturity (less than 1000 g, less than 28 completed weeks of pregnancy) in the foreground of the causes of death.

[The classification of newborn infants with reference to length of gestation and birth weight]. / Praktische Erfahrungen mit der Klassifikation von Neugeborenen unter Berücksichtigung von Gestationsdauer und Geburtsgewicht.

Classification of newborns by birth weight and length of gestation has proved to meet both clinical and scientific demands. Classification by these criteria was applied to 16,888 newborns at the Regional Hospital of Schwerin, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, between 1969 and 1977. Particular attention was given to statistical treatment of the inhomogeneous group of infants of low birth weight. Analysis of this kind is proposed at national level, depending on improvement of postpartum diagnosis.