Home labour induction with retrievable prostaglandin pessary and continuous telemetric trans-abdominal fetal ECG monitoring

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Rauf, Zubair ^a   O'Brien, Ediri ^b   Stampalija, Tamara ^a   Ilioniu, Florin P ^a   Lavender, Tina ^b   Alfirevic, Zarko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPES; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; HOME DELIVERY; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; OUTPATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEMETRY; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ABDOMEN; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; FETUS; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PESSARIES; PREGNANCY; PROSTAGLANDINS; TELEMETRY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 82155182125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028129     Document Type: Article

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