Decision-making and involvement of women with previous C-section in choosing their mode of delivery.

Objective: To determine the attitude and factors leading to decision regarding the mode of delivery in women with previous experience of C-section.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at Maternity Unit of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, from January to August 2008, and involved 150 women with one previous C-section without any recurrent cause. All women had a parity of two or more.

Loading dose of magnesium sulphate versus standard regime for prophylaxis of pre-eclampsia.

Objective: To determine the efficacy of single dose of magnesium sulphate versus the standard Pritchard regime in the management of pre-eclampsia.

Study Design: Quasi-experimental study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, from January 2004 to January 2006.

Role of partogram in preventing prolonged labour.

Objective: To determine the effect of partogram on the frequency of prolonged labour, augmented labour, operative deliveries and whether appropriate interventions based on the partogram will reduce maternal and perinatal complications.

Method: A case controlled, prospective and interventional study on 1000 women in labour was carried out in the obstetric unit of Jinnah Post graduate medical center, Karachi, from 1st July to 30th December, 2002. Five hundred women were studied before and after the introduction of partogram.

Therapeutic termination of second trimester pregnancies with low dose misoprostol.

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of 50 microg misoprostol for midtrimester termination of pregnancies.

Design: Experimental, cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Unit II, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, a tertiary care centre, from 1st Jan 2003 to 30th June 2005.