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

Paige K Macky1, Haroon Samar1, Stephen J Conner1

  • 1From 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).

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.