Seems like the evidence is stacking up against inductions. "Hospital's Oxytocin Protocol Change Sharply Reduces Emergency C-Section Deliveries." And I quote "As oxytocin utilization declined from 93.3% to 78.9%, emergency cesarean deliveries decreased from 10.9% to 5.7%." (emphasis mine).1 Hopefully hospitals will soon be changing their induction protocols but in the meantime, if your doctor plans an induction, you might want to share this article with him.
1 Betsy Bates, "Hospital's Oxytocin Protocol Change Sharply Reduces Emergency C-Section Deliveries", Elsevier Global Medical News, June 23, 2009. http://egmn.idsk.com/stories_global/35_ds_7863805.jsp
Wow! And that hospital had a pretty low c-section rate to begin with....imagine what would happen if hospitals with 35ish% did the same thing....I suspect those c-sections would be more than cut in half!
Posted by: Krista | June 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM