[Telemetric monitoring of delivery when inducing labour by prostaglandin E2 tablets (author's transl)].

The article reports on 75 patients in whom labour had been introduced by means of oral administration of prostaglandin E2 tablets (35 patients were controlled at the bedside and 40 patients were monitored telemetrically.) Telemetric monitoring is preferable in oral application of ecbolics, since this entails a saving in ecbolics (4.7 as against 5.4 tablets), regular labour is induced more rapidly (after 57 as against 72 minutes) and total delivery time is shortened (4 hours 24 minutes as against 5 hours 15 minutes). There were no serious side effects neither in the mother nor in the neonate. 6 of the 75 patients complained of slight gastrointestinal side effects. The Apgar scores and pH levels of the children were in the normal range. The post-partum period was identical in both groups, namely, 11 minutes.