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Chapter 43 - Surgical Methods for Termination of Pregnancy

from Section 5 - Termination of Pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2022

By
Teresa Bombas
Edited by
Johannes Bitzer  and
Tahir A. Mahmood
Johannes Bitzer
Affiliation:
University Women’s Hospital, Basel
Tahir A. Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
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Indications, procedures, complications, management

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Indicationsprocedurescomplications
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Handbook of Contraception and Sexual Reproductive Healthcare , pp. 289 - 295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

World Health Organization. Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2012.Google Scholar
World Health Organization. Clinical Practice Handbook for Safe Abortion. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014.Google Scholar
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Best Practice in Comprehensive Abortion Care. UK: RCOG; 2018.Google Scholar
Kapp, N, et al. Modern methods to induce abortion: Safety, efficacy and choice. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology 63;2020:37e44.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Consensus Statement on Uterine Evacuation: Uterine Evacuation: Use Vacuum Aspiration or Medications, not Sharp Curettage. London: FIGO, 2011.Google Scholar
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Abortion Care. Surgical Abortion. UK: NICE, 2020.Google Scholar
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Abortion Care Overview. UK: NICE, 2020.Google Scholar
Wen, J, et al. Manual versus electric vacuum aspiration for first-trimester abortion: a systematic review. BJOG: An Int J Obstet Gynaecol 2008;115(1):5e13.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kulier, R et al. Surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy. Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews 2009.Google Scholar
White, K, et al. Complications from first-trimester aspiration abortion: a systematic review of the literature. Contraception 2015;92(5):422e38.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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