Complications and outcome of induced labour.

One thousand and twenty-two induced labours are reviewed retrospectively. The incidence of induction of labour differed significantly in the various ethnic groups. Hypertension was the major indication and labour was successfully induced in 95,4% of patients. One-fifth of induced labours ended in caesarean section. The major complications associated with induction, fetal distress, cephalopelvic disproportion and hypertonic uterine inertia, and preventable. The perinatal loss associated with induction is mainly due to factors not related to induction per se.