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Re: New method for cervical ripening?? From: charlie chambers (cchamber@ic.owatonna.mn.us) Sun Apr 6 21:23:56 1997 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: charlie chambers: "Re: HRT Wash Out Period?" Previous message: Geffrey H. Klein, MD: "Re: Ectopic pregnancy- when to quit?" In reply to: Frumble@aol.com: "New method for cervical ripening??" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: New method for cervical ripening??" Tina, as they say, everything old is new again. This method of cervical ripening has been described for quite some time. Some references in the 60's though I can't quote them off the top of my head. When I was a resident at Utah, one of the other residents did a small research comparison to PGE2 with comparable results. To my knowledge, this was never published. Seemed to mostly cause dilation, allowing one to perform an amniotomy. Little if any effacement was observed. The procedure became quite popular untial a few patients delivered unusual and significant intrapartum and postpartum infections. The chairman called to halt to all "balloon inductions" unless these patients were enrolled in a study to determine if these infections were related to the "balloon inductions". Study never materialized and the method fell out of favor. -- ########################################################################## Charlie Chambers, M.D. "Are you threatening me? cchamber@ic.owatonna.mn.us Cornholio Owatonna Clinic, P.A. (507) 451-1120 ########################################################################## Next message: charlie chambers: "Re: HRT Wash Out Period?" Previous message: Geffrey H. Klein, MD: "Re: Ectopic pregnancy- when to quit?" In reply to: Frumble@aol.com: "New method for cervical ripening??" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: New method for cervical ripening??"

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