Retained placenta: Do we have any option?

Table 1 Comparison of various trials[33].

Study	Number of patients	Oxytocin dose (IU)	Total volume infused (mL)	Manual removal of placenta rate (%)
Makkonen et al[31]	109	50	20	72.1
Frappell et al[40]	41	10	20	63.0
Weeks et al[23]	577	50	30	61.3
Selinger et al[36]	30	10	20	60.0
Caroli et al[37]	286	20	40	58.2
Gazvani et al[38]	81	20	20	53.8
Kristiansen et al[34]	51	10	10	52.6
Sivalingam et al[35]	35	30	30	47.0
Huber et al[39]	200	10	20	38.0
Wilken-Jensen et al[32]	37	100	30	27.8
Lim et al[33]	61	100	40	30.0