An evaluation of the significance of positive oxytocin challenge test.
Sixty-six of 390 patients studied at LAC/USC Women's Hospital between 1970 and 1973 had positive oxytocin challenge tests (OCT). Twenty-four percent of patients who were allowed direct monitored labor after a positive OCT showed no late deceleration and must be assumed to have had false-positive tests. Patients with positive OCT's had significantly increased incidences of perinatal mord late deceleration in labor when compared to patients with no positive OCT. The combination of a positive OCT and abnormal 24-hour urinary estriol excretion should be considered ominous.
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D005316:Fetal Distress / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005318:Fetal Heart; D005865:Gestational Age; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010121:Oxytocin; D010927:Placental Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D014590:Uterine Contraction / Q000187:drug effects
D010121:Oxytocin