Effect of extra-amniotic Foley's catheter and vaginal misoprostol versus vaginal misoprostol alone on cervical ripening and induction of labor in Kenya, a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The safest, most effective and fastest combined approaches to induction of labor is unknown. In an open-label randomized clinical trial we evaluated the efficacy of combination of extra-amniotic Foley's catheter and vaginal misoprostol compared to vaginal misoprostol alone for cervical ripening and induction of labor on the incidence of failed induction, induction-to-delivery interval and adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes.

Methods

Pregnant women at gestational age of 28 weeks or greater admitted at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya for induction of labor were enrolled then randomized to either a combination of extra-amniotic Foley's catheter inflated by 30 cm³ of normal saline and 25 micrograms of vaginal misoprostol or 25 micrograms of vaginal mi

SUBMITTER: Osoti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6044072 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature