Prehospital Cervical Ripening Before Induction and the Maternal Experience

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Conditions studied: Labor, Induced, Cervical Ripening

In brief

This is a randomized study evaluating the impact of pre-hospital cervical ripening with a transcervical Foley balloon before labor induction in full-term pregnancies on the length of inpatient labor induction and maternal satisfaction with the labor induction process. The investigators hypothesize that women who receive pre-hospital cervical ripening will have a shorter duration of inpatient labor induction as compared to women without pre-hospital cervical ripening.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01641601

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

8

Starts

2012-07-01

Expected to finish

2015-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-08-05

Who can join

Age: 15 and older, up to 50. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Intrauterine pregnancy
• Cephalic presentation
• Greater than 36 weeks estimated gestational age
• Reassuring fetal status
• Normal amniotic fluid index
• Clinical indication for induction of labor

You may not qualify if…

• Prior cesarean section
• Bishop score on cervical examination ≥ 6
• Unreliable transportation
• Home > 30 minutes from the hospital
• Non-reassuring fetal status
• Abnormal amniotic fluid index
• Other indication for immediate hospitalization

Where it is running

• UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital — San Francisco, California, United States

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