INDUCTION OF LABOR
| Autor: | Shamaila Faisal, Robina Kauser, Tahira Jabbar, Faiqa Imran |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | The Professional Medical Journal. 18:201-207 |
| ISSN: | 2071-7733 1024-8919 |
| DOI: | 10.29309/tpmj/2011.18.02.2052 |
| Popis: | background: Labor can be induced through a myriad of ways. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the intracervical Foley balloon catheter and intra vaginal 3 mg prostaglandin E2 tablet(s) in preinduction cervical ripening at term. Methods: Prospective analytic study of a cohort of 280 women selected through non probability sampling admitted in Obstetrics units, in two private hospitals one at Rawalpindi and the other at Mirpur (Azad Kashmir), from January 2009 to March 2010. All women were randomized to receive an intracervical Foley catheter or prostaglandin E2 tablets. The primary measured outcome was ripening of the cervix as measured with the Bishop score. Results: There were no differences in mean Bishop Scores between the prostaglandin and the Foley catheter groups. Bishop scores (mean ± S.D.) after ripening were 6.6±0.81 and 6.7±0.86 for the Foley catheter and prostaglandin groups, respectively (P=0.54). The prostaglandin group showed a statistically shorter induction to delivery time compared with the Foley catheter (16.5±2.2 and 20.51±3.89 h, respectively (P |
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