tocolytics

"It remains to be determined if infants of women who receive tocolytics are better off.

Giving tocolytics such as terbutaline or magnesium sulfate have a lower success rate.

Tocolytics are generally given to prevent labor.

It can be inhibited by tocolytics.

The suppression of contractions is often only partial and tocolytics can only be relied on to delay birth for several days.

• Discuss with a physician, before the transport, the use of medications to slow or stop labor (e.g., tocolytics)

The contractions are less frequent, and everyone is hoping that the tocolytics are doing the trick and the pregnancy will proceed.

Obstetricians routinely try to stop premature labor by giving drugs, called tocolytics, that can suppress uterine contractions in the early phases of premature labor.

Tocolytics (also called anti-contraction medications or labor repressants) are medications used to suppress premature labor (from the Greek tokos, childbirth, and lytic, capable of dissolving).

Magnesium sulfate is no longer given to pregnant women who are experiencing premature labor in order to slow or stop their contractions (other tocolytics are now used instead due to better efficacy and side effect profiles).

For this reason it [PAMG-1] has been used in women with a shortened cervix and may be useful for clinical decision making and the use of tocolytics, the use of corticosteroids or monitoring of these patients.