Boukerfa-Bennacer Y, Perrot M, Giraud A, et al. - Researchers performed this prospective monocentric cohort study with the aim to compare the cesarean section rate before and after the introduction of an expectant management protocol in patients with abnormally progressing first-stage labor. Inclusion of a total of 267 patients was done, 97 in the control group and 170 in the study group. Findings revealed a decrease in the number of cesarean sections in correlation with the expectant management in patients with labor arrest in the first stage, at the cost of an increase in instrumental extractions and postpartum hemorrhages.