These eLectures have been designed to provide easily accessible, stimulating lectures for trainees and healthcare professionals with an interest in abortion care.
This tutorial discusses a woman's decision-making process, how HCPs can provide support to those requesting an abortion, pre-abortion assessment, and the additional needs of vulnerable women.
This tutorial outlines surgical abortion methods up to 14 weeks’ gestation, along with clincial reasoning, options for pain management including cervical anaesthesia, how to perform uterine aspiration safely, and post-operative care options.
This tutorial defines feticide, explains why, when and how feticide might be performed, acknowledges variations in patient and clinician views and practice, and discusses the clinical and ethical complexities involved.
This tutorial examines conscience and abortion, conscientious objection and how to ensure the patient receives the care they need, whether involved clinicians have a personal conscientious objection to abortion or not.
This tutorial outlines the advantages and disadvantages of medical abortion after 10 weeks and up to 24 weeks’ gestation, including the drugs and regimens used, contraindications, side-effects and post-abortion contraceptive methods.
