• Introduction
  • Our Team
  • How we make clinical recommendations
  • General Recommendations
    • Summary of recommended medical abortion regimens
    • Uterine evacuation: Replace sharp curettage with aspiration or medications
    • Prophylactic antibiotics for vacuum aspiration and dilatation and evacuation
    • Prophylactic antibiotics for medical abortion
    • Medical abortion contraindications and precautions
    • Misoprostol product quality
  • Pain Management
    • Pain management for medical abortion before 13 weeks gestation
    • Pain management for medical abortion at or after 13 weeks gestation
    • Pain management for vacuum aspiration
    • Pain management for dilatation and evacuation
    • Paracervical block
  • Recommendations for abortion before 13 weeks gestation
    • Adolescents: Safety and effectiveness
    • Midlevel providers: Safety and effectiveness
    • Gestational dating
    • Screening for ectopic pregnancy
    • Vacuum aspiration
      • Safety and effectiveness
      • Cervical preparation
      • Bimanual examination
      • Examining products of conception
      • Processing Ipas MVA PlusĀ® and Ipas Single-Valve aspirators
    • Medical Abortion
      • Safety and effectiveness
      • Risk of fetal malformations
      • Mifepristone and misoprostol: Recommended regimen
      • Misoprostol only: Recommended regimen
      • Home use of medications up to 11 weeks gestation
      • Confirmation of success
      • Ultrasound findings at follow-up
  • Recommendations for abortion at or after 13 weeks gestation
    • Who has abortions at 13 weeks or later?
    • Comparing methods
    • Gestational dating
    • Induced fetal demise
    • Follow-up
    • Dilatation and evacuation
      • Cervical preparation
    • Medical Abortion
      • Safety and effectiveness
      • Mifepristone and misoprostol: Recommended regimen
      • Misoprostol only: Recommended regimen
      • Presence of uterine scar: Recommended regimen
  • Postabortion care
    • Recommended medication regimen for treatment of incomplete and missed abortion for less than 13 weeks uterine size
    • Recommended medication regimen for treatment of incomplete and missed abortion for 13 weeks or larger uterine size
    • Postabortion contraception: When and what type
    • Postabortion IUD use: Safety and timing
    • Postabortion hemorrhage: Prevention and management
    • Managing uterine perforation
  • Additional Resources
  • Appendix: Pain Medication Table
  • Appendix: Continuum of depth of sedation: Definition of general anesthesia and levels of sedation/analgesia
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Clinical Updates in Reproductive Health

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General Recommendations

  • Summary of recommended medical abortion regimens
  • Uterine evacuation: Replace sharp curettage with aspiration or medications
  • Prophylactic antibiotics for vacuum aspiration and dilatation and evacuation
  • Prophylactic antibiotics for medical abortion
  • Medical abortion contraindications and precautions
  • Misoprostol product quality
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