| Abstract: | The therapy of imminent prematurity needs specific treatment of the respective illness. Moreover there are three fundamental measures: 1. To appease the patients and to applicate sedatives. 2. To carry out tokolysis with medicamentes. 3. To carry out cerclage operation in order to close the uterine mouth. These possibilities must be combined in various ways dependent from the success in every individual case. These measures also are suit in prophylaxis, for example in disorders of former pregnancies. All schemes of therapy adapted to the individual case. The dosis must be determined from the effect of therapy. A particular view point must be the hospitalisation between 28. and 32. week of pregnancy in cases of twins or placenta previa. Also in cases of early rupture of amnion prolongation of pregnancy must be aspired. |
