Does the use of oxytocin in a pulsatile fashion (intermittent boluses), when compared to the use of continuous oxytocin, for the commencement and/or assistance of labour, result in a reduction in the number of caesarean sections that are required?

Pregnant females who require an induction and or augmentation of their labour will be randomised to either intravenous continuous oxytocin infusion (which is commenced at 12 mls/hour from a stock solution of 1000 mls of Hartmann's solution containing 10 IU of oxytocin, with the rate increased every 30 minutes until labour is established, with a rate of four contractions within 10 minutes as per Safer Care Victoria's maternity e-handbook), or in a pulsatile fashion. With regards to the pulsatile oxytocin infusion, from the same stock solution of 10 IU of oxytocin in 1000 mls of Hartmann's solution, a 3 ml bolus is given every 15 minutes. After 4 boluses have been given (ie one hour has elapsed), the rate is increased to the next step (24 mls/hour), which would be given as a 6 ml bolus every 15 minutes. The rate is increased in this stepwise fashion until labour is established with 4 contractions within 10 minutes. As per Institutional policy, the midwives commence the infusion with oxytocin, as directed by the treating obstetrician.