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

Paige K Macky; Haroon Samar; Stephen J Conner; Ashley L Urick; Catherine A Yeager; Derrick J Tiel; J Scott Earwood; Bob Marshall

doi:10.3122/jabfm.2023.230344R1

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

J Am Board Fam Med. 2024 Mar 11;37(1):147-149. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230344R1.

Authors

Paige K Macky¹, Haroon Samar¹, Stephen J Conner¹, Ashley L Urick¹, Catherine A Yeager¹, Derrick J Tiel¹, J Scott Earwood¹, Bob Marshall¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Fort Eisenhower, GA (PKM); Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Fort Cavazos, TX (HS); Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Fort Eisenhower, GA (SJC); Madigan Army Medical Center Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA (AUH); Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Fort Eisenhower, Augusta, GA (CAY); Madigan Army Medical Center Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA (DJT); Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Fort Gordon, GA (JSE); Madigan Army Medical Center Family Medicine Residency, Tacoma, WA (BM).

PMID: 38448237
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230344R1

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.

MeSH terms

Amniotomy*
Cervical Ripening*
Cesarean Section
Female
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Labor, Induced / methods
Pregnancy
Time Factors