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Filter by:This study is a single-center, randomized, two-arm, controlled trial, including women requiring cervical ripening during the process Induction of Labor using Balloon catheter (BC). The primary objective of the study is to determine if the use of heated saline in the BC used for cervical ripening reduces the length of BC duration. Participants will be allocated to : - Intervention or warm group: the BC will be filled with heated saline water up to 40° C - Standard or room temperature group: the BC will be filled with saline water at room temperature.
This study is a multi-center, prospective, observational clinical trial study. 924 full-term pregnant women will be enrolled as subjects, and the ratio of eligible subjects in the two groups is 1:1. In the prior cesarean section group, pregnant women with one previous cesarean section who are willing to try to the trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) and in accordance with the criteria according to the 2016 China vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) clinical management guidelines will be enrolled and recorded by our homemade registration form of TOLAC. In the control group, pregnant women after 39 weeks of gestation without vaginal labor contraindications will be enrolled. Whether in the experimental group or the control group, their cervical bishop score was less than 6 points, and they all will be induced by balloon catheter + oxytocin. After 96h, their final delivery mode will be recorded. In the following 42 days postpartum, their complications and the neonatal outcome will be followed up.
Twenty-two percent of deliveries in France are induced. In cases where labor is induced and cervix is unfavorable, cervical ripening prior oxytocin administration is advised in order to reduce the risk of cesarean delivery. Cervical ripening agents, pharmacological (prostaglandins) or mechanical are administered during 24 hours. After 24 hours, most women will be either delivered or in labor but 25% of women will require further induction of labor. For 16% of women who undergo cervical ripening, whatever the cervical ripening method, the cervix remains unchanged after 24 hours. The management of these women is not consensual and depends on the maternity unit where women are cared for. This study seeks to identify the most appropriate strategy for the management of women with an unfavorable cervix after 24 hours of cervical ripening, a strategy which would be associated with the lowest maternal and perinatal morbidity but also with the best maternal satisfaction. Because both strategies are practiced in France, the trial would compare: induction of labor with oxytocin and repeated cervical ripening. The aim is to show that repeating cervical ripening is an unnecessary procedure. And more specifically that oxytocin administration is not associated with a higher caesarean delivery rate and that it reduces the time to delivery in comparison with cervical ripening with prostaglandins.
This study will evaluate the insertion of double balloon device (DBD) for cervical ripening for 12 h vs 6 hours.