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This guideline covers the circumstances for inducing labour, methods of induction, assessment, monitoring, pain relief and managing complications. It aims to improve advice and care for pregnant women who are thinking about or having induction of labour.
Vaginal dinoprostone: What are the effectiveness, safety and maternal acceptability of: - different regimens of vaginal...
Evidence-based recommendations on insertion of a double balloon catheter for induction of labour in pregnant women without previous caesarean section. The catheter aims to help induction by causing dilation of the cervix when the cervix is unfavourable for induction. The double balloon squeezes the cervix and stimulates local prostaglandin release, which leads to cervical ripening.
NG207/06 | Vaginal dinoprostone: What are the effectiveness, safety and maternal acceptability of: - different regimens of vaginal...
NICE recommends offering women induced labour earlier in new draft guidance
Women should be offered induced labour earlier than previously advised to make birth safer for them and their babies, according to draft guidelines published by NICE today (25 May 2021). The updated recommendations strengthen previous advice in the light of new evidence on induction timings.