PROTOCOL OF A THESIS FOR PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF MASTER DEGREE IN OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Abstract

Induction of labor is still a controversial obstetric procedure. The need to time delivery has been recognized and practiced for centuries. Although the indications have clearly changed during the past 200 years from a need to expel a dead fetus to pre-emptive action to reduce the threat to fetal or maternal health, effective and safe methods of achieving delivery must always have been the primary objectives. (Macharey et al., 2014)