An assessment of fetal viability, with a reassuring fetal heart rate tracing, is required. If the fetal heart rate pattern is nonreassuring, other evaluative indices, such as amniotic fluid index ...

In conclusion, discontinuing oxytocin during the active phase of labor may slightly prolong labor by about 30 minutes, but it ...

Discontinuing oxytocin during active labor was associated with a 20% lower risk for cesarean delivery and reduced the risk for uterine tachysystole and non-reassuring fetal heart rate tracings.