Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion.

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.

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 trainingnecessary to provide safe abortion and/or treat complications of unsafe abortion. It isneither a substitute for formal training nor a training manual.

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