The Effects of Vaginal-cervical Balloon Dilatation on Shorting the Duration of Labour / 中华围产医学杂志

Objective To valuate the effects of Balloon dilatation on shorting the duration of labour. Methods Vaginal-cervical Balloon dilatation were used to dilate the vaginal and cervix in 303 cases of pregnant women (67 cases in latent stage and 236 cases in active stage)in labor. At the same time,284 cases of pregnant women did not use the Balloon dilatation as control. Rusults The length of first stage,second stage and the length of labour were shorter when Balloon dilatation were used in latent phase than those in the control group(7.58,0.53 and 9.27 hours v.s 10.86,1.12 and 12.23 hours) P