Abstract

DE LAS MERCEDES PENA, Migdalia; HERNANDEZ ROQUE, Claribel  and  GONZALEZ UNGO, Hedí Llobany. Behaviour of induced labor. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.3, pp. 71-80. ISSN 1561-3194.

Aimed at contributing with better knowledge of induced labor and following the new methodology of work, a prospective, cross-sectional and descriptive research was conducted at "Justo Legón Padilla" Gineco-Obstetric Hospital in Pinar del Río during the period of January 2002-December 2003. The whole sample took the totality of births during the period, and the group of study the pregnants who underwent induced labor (n = 360); the variables of mother, birth and the conception product were analyzed, and methods of percentage and mean were applied to data collected. The most frequent causes of cesarean sections were: acute fetal distress (45.66%) and cephalo-pelvic disproportion (26.08%), being related the first one to oligoamnios, retarded intrauterine growth and chronic hypertension. Cephalo-pelvic disproportion was related to prolonged pregnancy and diabetes mellitus, Apgar score < 7 in cesarean sections,  in induced labor 1.5 times more frequent than in natural labors; fetal death intralabor was present in pregnants with morbidities, and the main causes were septic and haemorrhagic infections, being the septic ones 2.16 times more frequent than the haemorrhagic.

Keywords : INDUCED LABOR.

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