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DE LAS MERCEDES PENA, Migdalia; HERNANDEZ ROQUE, Claribel  y  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.

Palabras clave : INDUCED LABOR.

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