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1. Combined Procedure of Aspiration Termination and Laparoscopic Sterilization

Author

P. C. Steptoe and M. Imran

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Interprofessional Relations, Close supervision, Pregnancy, Methods, Humans, Medicine, Complication rate, Abortion, Therapeutic, General Environmental Science, Laparoscopic sterilization, business.industry, Sterilization, Reproductive, Uterus, General Engineering, Papers and Originals, General Medicine, Combined procedure, medicine.disease, Dilatation, Surgery, Hospitalization, Gynecology, Drainage, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Female, Family Practice, business
Abstract

Termination of pregnancy and laparoscopic sterilization has been performed in 101 women in a one-year period. The complication rate was low and the average stay in hospital was short. With close supervision and co-operation between the gynaecologist and the patient's general practitioner it is suggested that this is a safe and economic procedure.

Published
1969
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2. Vacuum Aspiration of the Uterus in Therapeutic Abortion

Author

Mary M. Anderson, A. E. R. Buckle, and K. C. Loung

Subjects
Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, medicine.medical_treatment, Uterus, Abortion, Blood loss, Pregnancy, Humans, Medicine, Complication rate, Abortion, Therapeutic, Prospective cohort study, reproductive and urinary physiology, General Environmental Science, Vacuum aspiration, business.industry, Obstetrics, Postpartum Hemorrhage, General Engineering, Extraction, Obstetrical, Papers and Originals, Hydatidiform Mole, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Therapeutic abortion, Surgery, medicine.anatomical_structure, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Female, business
Abstract

A prospective study of vacuum aspiration in 400 cases of therapeutic abortion is described showing that the procedure was quick, involving little blood loss in most cases, and that the complication rate was low. The routine use of this method in therapeutic abortion is recommended.

Published
1970
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