Labor induction despite an unriped cervix is one of the most common indications of the use of prostoglandines. This clinical trial was performed to compare the effectiveness of oxytocin with misoprostol for induction of labor in Bahonar Hospital, Kerman/lran from 1999 to 2000. Sixty pregnant women with indication for labor induction were randomly assigned to receive misoprostol or oxytocin. Mis...

background: oxytocin infusion is used for induction or augmentation of labor to prevent prolonged labor. a cheap and nonaggressive alternative which is effectively used for contraction stress test is nipple stimulation. however research regarding its efficacy and safety is still limited. this study aims to compare the effectiveness of nipple stimulation and oxytocin infusion on the duration of ...

OBJECTIVE Labor induction is an increasingly common procedure, even among women at low risk, although evidence to assess its risks remains sparse. Our objective was to assess the association between induction of labor and postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in low-risk parturients, globally and according to its indications and methods. METHOD Population-based case-control study of low-risk women who ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the pattern of labor progression and risk of cesarean delivery in women whose labor was electively induced. METHODS We analyzed data on all low-risk, nulliparous women with an elective induction or spontaneous onset of labor between 37 + 0 and 40 + 6 weeks from January 2002 to March 2004 at a single institution. The median duration of labor by each centimeter of cervical...

Bayesian topic models have recently been shown to perform well in word sense induction (WSI) tasks. Such models have almost exclusively used bag-of-words features, and failed to attain improvement by including other feature types. In this paper, we investigate the impact of integrating syntactic and knowledge-based features and show that both parametric and non-parametric models consistently be...

Pharmacologic methods for induction of labor have been used for many decades. Pharmacologic agents have an advantage over mechanical methods in that they can be used during both the initial cervical ripening stage of induction and throughout the second stage of labor. Pharmacologic induction agents such as prostaglandins and oxytocin are commonly used for labor and delivery floors and are well ...

Hormone-mediated quiescence involves the maintenance of a decreased inflammatory responsiveness. However, no study has investigated whether labor induction with prostanoids is associated with changes in the levels of maternal serum hormones. The objective of this study was to determine whether labor induction with dinoprostone is associated with changes in maternal serum progesterone, estradiol...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of transvaginal sonographic cervical measurement in predicting failed labor induction and cesarean delivery for failure to progress in nulliparous women. One hundred and sixty-one women scheduled for labor induction underwent transvaginal ultrasonography and digital cervical examinations. Logistic regression demonstrated that cervical length and g...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to compare mode of delivery for both nulliparous and multiparous women at term that underwent elective induction of labor to those who arrived in spontaneous labor. METHODS Medical records of 807 deliveries were reviewed. There were 566 labor patients and 241 elective induction patients. RESULTS Women who underwent elective induction of labor were mor...