Treatment after early pregnancy loss : Eastern Zone
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/chpams38254
Nova Scotia Health Authority. Eastern Zone. Interprofessional Practice and Learning. Clinical Nurse Educators.
Halifax, NS:
Nova Scotia Health Authority
, 2024.
- Pamphlet Number
- 2387
- Available Online
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After early pregnancy loss, you may wait for the tissue to pass on its own (expectant management), take medication called misoprostol (medical management), or be scheduled for a surgery called a dilation and curettage (D and C). This pamphlet explains what will happen with each of the 3 options. Possible complications, discharge instructions, and what to do in an emergency are listed. A list of local resources is given.
- Available Online
- View Pamphlet
- Corporate Author
- Nova Scotia Health Authority. Eastern Zone. Interprofessional Practice and Learning. Clinical Nurse Educators
- Alternate Title
- Treatment after miscarriage
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Date of Publication
- 2024
- Format
- Pamphlet
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document (8 p.) : digital, PDF file
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Abortion, Spontaneous - therapy
- Hydatidiform Mole
- Pregnancy, Ectopic
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Miscarriage
- Molar pregnancy
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Abstract
- After early pregnancy loss, you may wait for the tissue to pass on its own (expectant management), take medication called misoprostol (medical management), or be scheduled for a surgery called a dilation and curettage (D and C). This pamphlet explains what will happen with each of the 3 options. Possible complications, discharge instructions, and what to do in an emergency are listed. A list of local resources is given.
- Responsibility
- Prepared by: IPPL CNEs in collaboration with the Women and Children’s Health Program and the Emergency Department
- Adapted from: PL-0757 with permission of IWK Health Centre
- Pamphlet Number
- 2387
