Alongside the thousands of Cochrane Reviews of the effects of treatments, are some that examine interventions to help with medical procedures. Among these is an April 2015 review of preoperative ripening of the cervix before an operative hysteroscopy. Haya Al-Fozan from the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia describes the importance of this review and its findings in this podcast.