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Re: Cytotec , Prepidil,Cervidil and my mistake From: RModugno@aol.com Sat Sep 18 10:20:32 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Myer S. Bornstein: "Re: US OB's beware!" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: TIC - US OB's beware!" Maybe in reply to: emilio porro: "Cytotec , Prepidil,Cervidil and my mistake" In a message dated 9/18/2004 10:27:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, annam@uic.edu (Anna Meenan, MD) writes: >In the US, Cervidil is dinoprostone 10 mg.  It comes in the form of a >small wafer wrapped in a little gauze pouch with a long tail on it.  It >is used for cervical ripening at term, placed in posterior fornix for 12 >hours, or until active labor starts.  It is much more expensive than >cytotec, so it is not used routinely a lot of places, but it's nice if >there is any concern about how the baby will tolerate labor, because if >you get hyperstimulation or fetal distress, you pull it out and it's >gone. > >                     Anna Meenan, MD > In our hospital the efficacy of cervidil is directly related to the inserter's knowledge of the location of the posterior fornix. I can't tell you how many times we've had them fall out! Oral cytotec takes care of that and brethine takes care of hyperstim. ;+) Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG Marietta, GA http://www.novaobgyn.yourmd.com Next message: Myer S. Bornstein: "Re: US OB's beware!" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: TIC - US OB's beware!" Maybe in reply to: emilio porro: "Cytotec , Prepidil,Cervidil and my mistake"

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