Active management of labour and cephalopelvic disproportion
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"Active management of labour and cep..." refers background in this paper
...It has been stated frequently that disproportion is a common cause of protracted labour and that ocytocin should never be given to accelerate progress unless disproportion has been excluded (Hellman, 19 59 ; Friedman and Sachtleben, 1962 ; Turnbull and Anderson, 1968)....
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...Turnbull and Anderson (1968) were especially concerned about the possibility of injury to the fetus resulting in traumatic intracranial haemorrhage, and recommended that only when full clinical and radiological assessment excluded disproportion should oxytocin be used....
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...Theobald et al. (1956) and Hannah (1965) did not consider this a contraindication, and Goodwin and Reid (1963) concluded that oxytocin demonstrated safely and quickly the limits of uterine ability in trial of labour....
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...Ledger (1969) advocated an aggressive policy towards labour in patients with abnormal patterns of cervical dilatation, provided there was no cephalopelvic disproportion, and Hellman (1 959) warned that pelvic contraction even of a minor degree was the principal contraindication to stimulation....
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