Double Balloon Catheter Versus Dinoprostone Vaginal Insert for Cervical Ripening.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

To compare the efficacy of transcervical double balloon catheters versus controlled release dinoprostone vaginal inserts for pre-induction cervical ripening in term women with unfavourable cervices.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
• Treatments: Dinoprostone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• singleton gestation

• gestational age greater than 34 weeks

• cephalic presentation

• intact membranes

• Bishop score of ≤4

• reactive fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern on admission

Exclusion Criteria:

• any condition precluding vaginal delivery

• any contraindication to receiving prostaglandins, including history of asthma, glaucoma, or cardiac or cardiovascular disease

• previous cesarean section or other uterine incision