Early Versus Delayed Artificial Rupture of Membranes (AROM Trial)
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2021-10-18
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This randomized controlled trial of consenting women undergoing induction of labor with
combined combination Foley catheter and pharmacologic cervical ripening seeks to efficacy of
early amniotomy.
This project will include 157 women presenting at Christiana Care Health System. Women will
be included if they are at least 37 weeks gestation, have a singleton pregnancy, have intact
membranes and are undergoing an induction of labor using a Foley catheter combined with
either misoprostol or pitocin. Following admission, women will be randomized into either
early or delayed amniotomy
Women will be randomized with equal probability to the intervention group using block
randomization stratified by party.
Prior to discharge from the hospital, baseline demographic and clinical data will be obtained
via chart review