Bibliographic Info
GuidelineHealth worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception
Year of Publication2015
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization
Recommendation
Status
Maintained
Recommended
Management of uncomplicated incomplete abortion/miscarriage in the first trimester with misoprostol. Health worker. Nurses :Recommended
Notes and Remarks
- 1.Uncomplicated incomplete abortion can result after an induced or spontaneous abortion (i.e. miscarriage). The management is identical and the above recommendations apply to both situations.
- 2.Restrictions on prescribing authority for some categories of providers may need to be modified or other mechanisms put in place for making the medications available for these providers within the regulatory framework of the health system.
- 3.The evacuation of retained products is a signal function of basic EmOC; thus training and implementation of these tasks can be integrated with EmOC services.
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