Oxytocin: new perspectives on an old drug

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35.e1-35.e6

  Clark, Steven L ^a   Simpson, Kathleen Rice ^b   Knox, G Eric ^c   Garite, Thomas J ^d  

^a St Mark's Hospital Salt Lake City   (United States)

^b ST JOHN S MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adverse perinatal outcomes; evidence based guidelines; labor; monitoring protocols; oxytocin

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; OXYTOCIN;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AMNIOTOMY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG MISUSE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MOTHER; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRICS; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; PULSE OXIMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 58049173691     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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