A Randomized, Control Trial for Preinduction Cervical Ripening

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Labor, Induced

In brief

The goal of this study is to compare the vaginal delivery rates in women undergoing induction of labor with an unripe cervix between oxytocin induction alone and preinduction cervical ripening with prostaglandin El (misoprostol). Secondary goals are to measure and compare the time intervals to delivery between the two methods.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00393731

Run by

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

People needed

540

Starts

2004-01-01

Expected to finish

2007-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-01-16

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Women that are hospitalized for induction of labor that have a Bishop's score <5
• singleton gestation
• cephalic presentation
• 24 weeks gestational age

You may not qualify if…

• Prior uterine surgery
• malpresentation
• placenta previa or abruption
• clinically suspected or diagnosed intra amniotic infection
• genital HSV infection
• multiple gestation
• premature rupture of the membranes
• active labor
• maternal/fetal conditions that may preclude labor induction in the opinion of the investigators

Where it is running

• Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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