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 vacuum aspiration. Health worker. Nurses: Recommended
Notes and Remarks
- 1.While MVA is more commonly used and more likely in primary care settings, the skills required for EVA are similar; thus the recommendations above apply to the provision of either form of vacuum aspiration.
- 2.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.
- 3.The evacuation of retained products is also a signal function of basic emergency obstetric care and training and implementation can be integrated with emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services.
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