Oxytocin for induction of labor

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 594-608

  Smith, Jennifer G ^a   Merrill, David C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High dose; Labor induction; Oxytocin; Physiology

Indexed keywords

ETHACRIDINE LACTATE; MISOPROSTOL; NALBUPHINE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TERBUTALINE;

CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; LABOR INDUCTION; LABOR PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; META ANALYSIS; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYSYSTOLE; UTERINE HYPERSTIMULATION; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS FUNCTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WATER INTOXICATION;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LABOR, INDUCED; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 33746838124     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200609000-00019     Document Type: Review

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