Emergency Medicine Simulation Scenario: First-Trimester “Septic” Abortion
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First trimester procedural abortion in family medicine.
Unintended pregnancy is common, and in the United States almost one-third [corrected] of all women will have at least one abortion during their lifetime. The majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester. Although advances have been made in the provision of medical abortion in the family medicine setting, procedural methods remain the cornerstone of abortion care. We present a step...
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عنوان ژورنال: MedEdPORTAL
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2374-8265
DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9027