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Management of unintended and abnormal pregnancy : comprehensive abortion care /
Access to high quality abortion care is essential to women's health, as evidenced by the dramatic decrease in pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality since the legalization of abortion in the United States, and by high rates of maternal death and complications in those countries where abortio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section I. Abortion in perspective
- 1. Abortion and medicine: A sociopolitical history
- 2. Unsafe abortion: The global public health challenge
- 3. Unintended pregnancy and abortion in the USA: Epidemiology and public health impact
- 4. Abortion law and policy in the USA
- Section II. Pre-procedure care
- 5. Informed consent, patient education, and counseling
- 6. Clinical assessment and ultrasound in early pregnancy
- 7. Medical evaluation and management
- 8. Pain management
- Section III. Abortion methods and techniques
- 9. Medical abortion in early pregnancy
- 10. First-trimester aspiration abortion
- 11. Dilation and evacuation
- 12. Medical methods to induce abortion in the second trimester
- 13. The challenging abortion
- Section IV. Post-procedure care
- 14. Contraception and surgical abortion aftercare
- 15. Surgical complications: Prevention and management
- 16. Answering questions about long-term outcomes
- Section V. Management of abnormal pregnancies
- 17. Pregnancy loss
- 18. Ectopic pregnancy
- 19. Gestational trophoblastic disease
- 20. Abortion for fetal abnormalities or maternal conditions
- 21. Multifetal pregnancy reduction and selective termination
- Section VI Abortion service delivery
- 22. Providing abortion in low-resource settings
- 23. Ensuring quality care in abortion services.