A comparison of intravaginal misoprostol with intravenous oxytocin for labor induction at term

Objective : To compare the safety and efficacy of intravaginally administered misoprostol (PGE1 analogue) versus intravenously administered oxytocin for labor induction at term. Methods : Among 63 patients over 37 weeks, randomly selected 42 patients were vaginally administered 25 ㎍ of misoprostol every 3 hours and the other 21 patients were intravenously administered every minute from 1 mIU/min to 10 mIU/min increasingly. Result : The average interval from initiation of induction to labor was notably shorter in oxytocin group than in misoprostol group (204.5332.6 min versus 528.1591.8 min, P309.4 min versus 528.1519.8 min, P150.14 min versus 605.5805.8 min, P11.9 min versus 19.511.2 min, P