Aim: To compare effectiveness and safety of double balloon catheter prostaglandins for induction labor. Methods: an observational ambidirectional cohort study was conducted at a tertiary care university hospital. A total 666 women with Bishop score ≤6 requiring labor were included. 418 patients compared retrospective 248 induced prostaglandins, either misoprostol or dinoprostone. Perinatal outc...

The fetus is an unstable subject for an isolated physiological and biochemical study. To study the fetus in a controlled and stable environment, a trial was done using 12 goat fetuses. Extrauterine incubation system was devised using an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation system. The system consisted of a venous reservoir with a servo-controlled roller pump and a membrane oxygenator. The extra-...

Automated method for exchange transfusion Sir, In their report (Archives, 1972, 47, 815) M. G. Philpott and A. Banerjee presented a technique of exchange transfusion based on the use of a Holter infusion pump with two channels connected to umbilical vein and artery. In 1971 we (Garofalo, Minerva, and Baltieri, 1971) described a method of exchange transfusion by means of Holter microinfusion rol...

We have performed serial haemodynamic investigations in 20 women undergoing elective Caesarean section under continuous spinal anaesthesia with a 32-gauge catheter with 0.5% heavy bupivacaine. Cardiac output was measured by Doppler and cross-sectional echocardiography at the aortic valve. Doppler flow velocity waveforms were recorded also from the umbilical artery. A block to T4 or above was ac...