Oxytocin use during active labor: Too much of a good thing?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 439-440

  Prasad, Mona R ^a   Funai, Edmund ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; OXYGENATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR ONSET; LABOR, INDUCED; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84869444398     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2012.09.005     Document Type: Editorial

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