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
Initial management of non-life-threatening post-abortion infection. Specialist doctors, non-specialist doctors: Recommended
Notes and Remarks
- 1.More specific recommendations relating to the comprehensive management of post-abortion infection were not made due to lack of clinical guidelines on the management of complications from unsafe abortion.
- 2.Restrictions on prescribing authority for some categories of providers may need to be modified or other mechanisms put in place for allowing such providers to administer the antibiotic medications within the regulatory framework of the health system
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