한국인의 Friedman Curve와 Buscopan Compositum이 이에 미치는 영향 = A Study of the Normal Labor Curve in Korean Women and the Effect of Buscopan Compositum

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

For many years the traditional method of characterizing labor has been made by recording the length of the first, second and third stage. In 1954, Friedman developed a method which was more suitable for the statistical evaluation of the curve of labor. The Friedman curve was obtained by carefully recording the degree of dilation of the cervix in the coures of time. In this paper primigravidae and multigravidae were selected from the department of obstetrics and gynaecology, Seoul National University Hospital and the labor curves were recorded for each patient. In order to evaluate the normal labor curve in Korean women, 54 normal primigravidae and 51 multigravidae were selected out. Besides, 39 primigravidae and 34 multigravidae were selected in order to assess the effect of Buscopan Comp. This drug was administered in the frist stage of labour when the cervix was dilated to 2-4 cm, and regular and moderately strong contractions were present. The result of this study is that the labor curve in Korean women is very similar to the Friedman curve, and that Buscopan Comp. has the property shortening remarkably the first stage of labor. Consequently the over all duration of labor in the Buscopan Comp. group was much shorter than that in the control group.