OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of SP6 acupressure on labor pain and delivery time in women in labor. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial. SETTING/LOCATION Delivery room in a university hospital. PARTICIPANTS Seventy-five (75) women in labor were randomly assigned to either the SP6 acupressure (n = 36) or SP6 touch control (n = 39) group. The participants were...

A 25-year-old woman (gravida 2, abortion 1) was admitted to Ghaem Hospital affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences at 24th week of gestation. Her chief complaint was bloody show. She had a history of incompetent cervix, with premature labor at 22nd week of gestation. She was hospitalized with 4 cm dilatation and 50% effacement of cervix at 24th week of gestation. Following bed rest...

Purpose: Prolong labour contributes to increased perinatal and maternal morbidity. Inhibitory impulses in the form of spasm often impair the dilatation of cervix and prolong the duration of labour. This study was undertaken to compare the effect of Tramadol Hydrochloride And Drotavarine Hydrochloride on duration of labour and rate of cervical dilatation and compare it with control group. Method...

The effects of misoprostol use on cervical priming prior to hysteroscopy have been controversial. Therefore, a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of studies were conducted to assess the effect of misoprostol on cervical priming prior to hysteroscopy. All studies published before July 2014 with data related to the use of misoprostol for cervical priming compared with placebo or no me...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the effectiveness of local lignocaine gel application in pain control during first-trimester suction termination of pregnancy (STOP). METHODS In this prospective randomized placebo-controlled double-blind trial, 131 women undergoing STOP between 7 and 10 weeks of gestation were studied. They were computer-randomized to receive 2% lignocaine gel or placebo (KY J...

The objective of this prospective randomized placebo-controlled study was to determine the effectiveness of 400 mug oral and 400 mug vaginal misoprostol administration for cervical priming 3 h prior to manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) under local anesthesia for voluntary termination of pregnancy before 10 weeks of gestation in comparison with placebo oral or placebo vaginal administration (n=40 i...

lence of between 5% and 18%. Only a minority of the patients with osteoarthritis of the atlantoaxial joints become symptomatic and suffer from severe suboccipital pain. Most often, these patients can be successfully treated using conservative methods. However, some of these patients require surgical treatment (1). To the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports on abnormality of the ve...

Creation of a scale analogous to the Bishop's (BS) based on transvaginal ultrasound. Assessment reproducibility and repeatability individual parameters correlation with corresponding axes BS. 116 patients in third trimester pregnancy had ultrasound examination assessment five selected BS (vaginal-cervical angle [VCA], dilatation assessed by 3D [DL], progression [AoP], strain elastography softwa...

BACKGROUND Medical treatment of esophageal strictures in horses is limited and the use of balloon dilatation is described in few cases. Long-term follow up after balloon dilatation and the use of intralesional corticosteroids has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVES To describe the use of endoscopic guided, esophageal balloon dilatation in horses for cervical and thoracic esophageal strictures and ...

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...