Induction of labor using a foley balloon, with and without extra-amniotic saline infusion

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 234-239

  Karjane, Nicole W ^a   Brock, Ellen L ^a   Walsh, Scott W ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN; POVIDONE IODINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAAMNIOTIC SALINE INFUSION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL DELIVERY; AMNION; BALLOON DILATATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFUSION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; AMNION; BALLOON DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; LABOR, INDUCED; PREGNANCY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 33645459576     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000198629.44186.c8     Document Type: Article

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