Bishop-Score

The Bishop score is an obstetric scoring system for assessing the maturity of the birth mother's mouth. It is a semi-quantitative method for detecting the consistency and the size of the cervix, the position and the shortening of the cervix, as well as the position of the preceding member of the unborn baby in the basin. The so certain birth ripening of the cervix is used to, if necessary, come to a decision on which way a birth is initiated. The Bishop score is more than 45 years of applied at the most common score for the assessment of cervical ripening.

Creation of the score

It creates an overall score based on five criteria, each 0-3 points will be awarded, so that a score can be from 0 to 15 reached.

Inter Spina plane ( ISP)

Background

The Bishop score was originally developed by E. H. Bishop developed in 1964 to investigate how Multiparous respond to induction with oxytocin, that react with which vaginal findings Pregnant on an induction of labor with oxytocin with effective birth pangs. The result of this study was that, with a Bishop score of> 9 an introduction with oxytocin leads within four hours of birth.

Source

• Hösli, I., Lapaire, O. & Voekt, C. ( 2009), " Introduction Which method is the best - A comparison ," The midwife 4-2008