Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464094003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2014
• ISBN: 92-4-069217-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (72 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.19888
• Soggetti: Abortion services; Abortion; Maternal health services -- Standards; Maternal Welfare; Prenatal Care -- organization & administration; Prenatal care -- Standards; Abortion - Standards; Obstetric Surgical Procedures; Investigative Techniques; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Methods; Abortion, Induced; Medicine; Health & Biological Sciences; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Electronic books.; Guideline; Practice Guideline
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- 1 Pre-abortion -- 1.1 Information, counselling and decision-making -- Provide information -- Offer counselling -- Decision-making -- Characteristics of abortion procedures -- Recommended methods of abortion -- 1.2 Medical history -- 1.3 Physical examination -- Pregnancy dating -- Limitations to dating -- ; key considerations -- 1.4 Laboratory and other investigations (if necessary and available) -- 1.5 Discussing contraceptive options -- Provide information and offer counselling -- 2 abortion -- 2.1 Summary of methods: medical and surgical abortion -- Medical abortion -- Surgical abortion -- 2.2 Infection prevention and control -- Standard precautions -- 2.3 Pain management -- Understanding pain with abortion -- Pain-management options -- Example of how to administer a paracervical block* -- 2.4 Medical abortion -- Clinical considerations -- 2.5 Medical abortion: &amp -- #8804 -- 12 weeks (or &amp -- #8804 -- 84 days) of pregnancy -- Treatment regimens for medical abortion &amp -- #8804 -- 12 weeks (or &amp -- #8804 -- 84 days) of pregnancy -- Providing the abortion procedure -- 2.6 Medical abortion: &gt -- 12 weeks (or &gt -- 84 days) of pregnancy -- Clinical considerations -- Providing the abortion procedure -- 2.7 Surgical abortion: cervical preparation -- 2.8 Drugs, supplies and equipment for surgical abortion -- 2.9 Surgical abortion: &amp -- #8804 -- 12-14 weeks of pregnancy -- Clinical considerations -- Prior to the start of the procedure -- Surgical abortion -- 2.10 Surgical abortion: &gt -- 12-14 weeks of pregnancy -- Clinical considerations -- Prior to the start of the procedure -- Surgical abortion -- 3 Post-abortion -- 3.1 Prior to discharge from the health-care facility -- 3.2 Additional follow-up with a health-care provider -- 3.3 Post-abortion contraception.; Contraceptive methods and medical eligibility afer abortion -- 3.4 Assessing and managing abortion complications -- Ongoing pregnancy -- Incomplete abortion -- Haemorrhage -- Infection -- Uterine perforation -- Anaesthesia-related complications -- Complications may occur that are not specific to the abortion procedure.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion care is intended to facilitate thepractical application of the clinical recommendations from the second edition of Safeabortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems (World Health Organization[WHO] 2012). While legal regulatory policy and service-delivery contexts may varyfrom country to country the recommendations and best practices described in both ofthese documents aim to enable evidence-based decision-making with respect to safeabortion care. This handbook is oriented to providers who already have the requisite skills and traini