Outpatient Based Misoprostol to Prevent Prolonged Pregnancy - Softcover

Jindal, Nikita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659413542 ISBN 13: 9783659413544

Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

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The present study is an "open randomized controlled trial" using single low dose (25 μg) misoprostol vaginally as an intervention in study group at 40 weeks of gestation in uncomplicated singleton pregnancies to prevent prolonged pregnancy with control group receiving no intervention. The study and control groups showed significant difference in number of women entering labor within 1 week of enrolment. Induction was needed in only 7.7% (5/65) of women in the study group, whereas in the control group, induction was required in 27.7% (18/65) of women. Mean duration from enrolment in study till delivery was 1.33±2.03 days in study group and 4.98±2.74 days in control group. Cesarean section was required in 13.9% (9/65) and 15.4% (10/65) in study and control groups respectively. Women in study group did not have any side effects. Mean birth weight, meconium stained liquor rate, NICU admission rate and neonatal morbidity were found to be comparable in both the groups. No neonatal or perinatal mortality was observed in either group.

Biografía del autor:

Author is an postgraduate student of MS (OBG) at University college of medical sciences, Delhi university, India. She has keen interest in labor management and has worked to find ways of preventing prolonged labor so as to decrease work load on health care system in developing countries like India.

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• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3659413542
• ISBN 13: 9783659413544
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92