background: early diagnosis of abnormal progressive labor and prevention of prolonged labor will cause decreased complications of mothers and fetuses. this was conduced to evaluate the alert line in who recommended program for diagnosis of abnormal labor. methods: subjects were 140 pregnant women. when their cervices were dilated about 3cm, the progress of delivery and condition of mothers and ...

Partograph is an inexpensive tool that serves as an "early warning system" and can assist in early decision making on transfer, augmentation, and termination of labour. The main objectives of the study were to compare length of labour, need of oxytocin augmentation, delivery outcome between two groups, neonatal outcome monitored by APGAR Score and incidence of maternal complications. This was a...

Uterine rupture in women undergoing trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) has been associated with induction and length. Contemporary definitions normal progress, based on data collected by the Consortium Safe Labor depicted Zhang’s partogram, allow for longer duration, but excluded a uterine scar. Here, we present characteristics TOLACs complicated rupture, context contemporary management guid...

Philpott's graphic labour has been modified and used in 15,000 labours; it has been unanimously accepted by the staff. A nomogram has been constructed to show the normal progressive dilatation of the cervix for primigravidae admitted at different stages of cervical dilatation. Retrospective evaluation of the nomogram showed that it can separate normal labour from labour destined to result in an...

BACKGROUND Prolonged labour very often causes suffering from difficulties that may have lifelong implications. This study aimed to explore the prevalence and treatment of prolonged labour and to compare birth outcome and women's experiences of prolonged and normal labour. METHOD Women with spontaneous onset of labour, living in a Swedish county, were recruited two months after birth, to a cro...