Outpatient versus inpatient cervical ripening with Foley catheter in pregnant women at term at the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

Conditions: Pregnancy and Childbirth

Registration Number: PACTR202311571442229

Lead Sponsor: Dr. Aliyu Sahabo Gurin

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: Female

Target Recruitment: 166

Inclusion Criteria

1) All booked and stable pregnant women who are planned for induction of labour at term with singleton pregnancy presenting cephalic with unfavorable cervix (Bishop Score of =5).
2) Patients that are informed, counseled, and consented to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

1) Bishop score =6
2)Contraindication to vaginal delivery
3) Antepartum hemorrhage.
4)Ruptured membrane
5)Multiple pregnancy
6)Patients with intrauterine fetal death, HIV, active hepatitis B infection
7) Previous cervical injury
8)Prematurity
9)Non vertex presentation
10)Medical disorders (excluding Controlled DM, mild hypertension)
11)non consent