Search results
17 maj 2024 · Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion (1). Comprehensive abortion care is included in the list of essential health care services published by WHO in 2020.
16 maj 2023 · The estimated abortion complication rate for all healthcare sources is about 2% for medication abortion, 1.3% for first-trimester aspiration abortion, and 1.5% for second-trimester or later abortions.
The frequency of abortion complications increases as the pregnancy advances due to greater technical complexity related to the anatomical and physiologic changes that occur (Zane et al. 2015). After eight weeks of gestation, the risk of death from abortion increases exponentially: 38 percent increased risk for each additional week . The ...
11 mar 2020 · Health care providers must become familiar with the normal course of self-managed abortion with medications and its rare complications, as well as complications of unsafe methods. This review...
The vast majority (99.34%) of medical abortions provided at Planned Parenthood health centers in 2009 and 2010 were completed with no known complications. Clinically significant adverse outcomes were rare, occurring at a rate of 16 per 10,000 medical abortions.
10 lip 2023 · Outline the steps of medical abortion, identify complications and explain how these can be managed.
8 mar 2022 · In this guideline, recommendations are presented across three domains that are essential to the provision of abortion care: Law and policy, Clinical services and Service delivery.
