[Clinico-biological evaluation of the status of newborn infants and the tactics in the management of the early postnatal period].

Biology of the perinatal period as a basis of neonatal management is an area of conceptual controversy. Literature evidence and findings of a clinical and functional study in 175 term newborns support the concept of intrapartum and neonatal stress. This is a rationale for a strategy of maintaining the adaptive mechanisms of the fetus and newborn in a maximal range and active support of neonatal homeostasis. Narcotic depression, prolonged hypothermia++ of various origins are considered as factors endangering the postnatal adaptation.