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  • Title: An evaluation of the significance of positive oxytocin challenge test.
    Author: Freeman RK, Goebelsman UW, Nochimson D, Cetrulo C.
    Journal: Obstet Gynecol; 1976 Jan; 47(1):8-13. PubMed ID: 1246400.
    Abstract:
    Sixty-six of 390 patients studied at LAC/USC Women's Hospital between 1970 and 1973 had positive oxytocin challenge tests (OCT). Twenty-four percent of patients who were allowed direct monitored labor after a positive OCT showed no late deceleration and must be assumed to have had false-positive tests. Patients with positive OCT's had significantly increased incidences of perinatal mord late deceleration in labor when compared to patients with no positive OCT. The combination of a positive OCT and abnormal 24-hour urinary estriol excretion should be considered ominous.
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