Abstract

PENA ABRAHAM, Mercedes; HERNANDEZ ROQUE, Claribel; MARTINEZ, Fermín Luis  and  GONZALEZ UNGO, Hedí Llobany. Induced delivery in prolonged gestation. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.3, pp.11-20. ISSN 1561-3194.

A retrospective, descriptive, explicative and longitudinal study about the behavior of the induction of labor in prolonged pregnancy was conducted at "Justo Legón Padilla" Gyneco-Obstetric Hospital during the period of January 2004 to December 2005. The whole sample was constituted by the totality of births in prolongad pregnancy during the period where the study group was exclusively formed by pregnants who underwent induced labor (n = 104).Variables of mother, birth and conception product were taken, and percentage method was applied to data collected. The group of most frequent maternal age was 20 - 35 (65,5%), prevailing nulliparous (40,4%) and transpelvic labor (42,3%), having a Bishop index = 7. The most frequent cause of cesarean section was fetal distress (23%), prolonged pregnancy was not an important cause of low Apgar score. Dystocic labor presented the greatest figures of neonatal and maternal morbidity (9,5%), no significative value of fetal macrosomia was found, predominating female sex in new born (65,3%).

Keywords : PROLONGED PREGNANCY; INDUCED LABOR.

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