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THE INFLUENCE OF PRE-INDUCTION VAGINAL PROSTAGLANDIN E2 GEL UPON SUBSEQUENT LABOUR
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1978.tb14943.x
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1471-0528/asset/cover.gif?v=1&s=b4e1d96c46e18c61210d584b63c13ee375cf562b "BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology")
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 85, Issue 9, pages 657–661, September 1978
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Mackenzie, I. Z. and Embrey, M. P. (1978), THE INFLUENCE OF PRE-INDUCTION VAGINAL PROSTAGLANDIN E2 GEL UPON SUBSEQUENT LABOUR. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 85: 657–661. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1978.tb14943.x
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Summary
Eight hundred and three patients with singleton viable pregnancies and fetal cephalic presentation were given prostaglandin E, in viscous gel by intravaginal instillation the evening before planned surgical induction. When the cervix was ‘ripe’, surgical induction was avoided in 65·9 per cent of primigravidae and 87 5 per cent of multigravidae; the administration of epidural analgesia was less frequent, the rate of spontaneous vaginal delivery greater, the Caesarean section rate lower, and the state of the newborn at delivery better than in those patients who required surgical induction. Side effects attributable to the prostaglandin gel were rare as were complications.