Labour Induction With Misoprostol, Dinoprostone and Bard Catheter
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2007-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This is a randomised study aimed at comparing the currently most frequently used
prostaglandin dinoprostone to two other methods, the cheaper and perhaps more effective
prostaglandin misoprostol and a transcervical catheter. 592 women were recruited and
randomised to one of the three methods. The main outcome measures were time to delivery, rate
of instrumental deliveries and maternal neonatal outcome. Our hypothesis was that misoprostol
would be superior to the other methods.
The main finding of our trial was that the catheter showed the shortest induction to delivery
interval. There were no differences between the two other prostaglandins. No differences in
maternal and neonatal outcome was found