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. 2024 Mar 11;37(1):147-149.
doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230344R1.

Just Pop It: Early AROM After Cervical Ripening Reduces the Time to Delivery

Paige K Macky  1 , Haroon Samar  1 , Stephen J Conner  1 , Ashley L Urick  1 , Catherine A Yeager  1 , Derrick J Tiel  1 , J Scott Earwood  1 , Bob Marshall  1
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Just Pop It: Early AROM After Cervical Ripening Reduces the Time to Delivery

Paige K Macky et al. J Am Board Fam Med. .

Abstract

In pregnant patients at term undergoing induction of labor, early time-based artificial rupture of membranes (AROM) within 1 hour of Foley bulb expulsion results in a shorter duration of labor by nearly 9 hours with no significant difference in cesarean delivery rates or maternal or neonatal adverse outcomes.1.

Keywords: AROM; Amniotomy; Cervical Ripening; Cesarean; Early Rupture of Membranes; Induced; Induction; Labor; Pregnancy; Singleton; Third Trimester.

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