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  • Abortion: Mifepristone No Progesterone Muscle Relaxation of Uterus Uterus Will Contract Embryo Expell

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    The document discusses four methods of abortion: medication abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol for up to 13 weeks; vacuum aspiration, the most common surgical method involving anesthesia and suction for up to 16 weeks; dilation and curettage using a curette instrument from 12-24 weeks; and dilation and evacuation, a later surgical abortion where the cervix is dilated over 24 hours before instruments are used to empty the uterus from 24 weeks onward. The worst complication mentioned is sepsis.

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    The document discusses four methods of abortion: medication abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol for up to 13 weeks; vacuum aspiration, the most common surgical method involving anesthesia and suction for up to 16 weeks; dilation and curettage using a curette instrument from 12-24 weeks; and dilation and evacuation, a later surgical abortion where the cervix is dilated over 24 hours before instruments are used to empty the uterus from 24 weeks onward. The worst complication mentioned is sepsis.

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    Abortion: Mifepristone No Progesterone Muscle Relaxation of Uterus Uterus Will Contract Embryo Expell

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    Denisse Shazz Mae Maret
    The document discusses four methods of abortion: medication abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol for up to 13 weeks; vacuum aspiration, the most common surgical method involving anesthesia and suction for up to 16 weeks; dilation and curettage using a curette instrument from 12-24 weeks; and dilation and evacuation, a later surgical abortion where the cervix is dilated over 24 hours before instruments are used to empty the uterus from 24 weeks onward. The worst complication mentioned is sepsis.

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    Abortion

    1. Pills = mifepristone and


    misoprostol
     13th weeks (1st trimester)
     Mifepristone
     No progesterone
     Muscle relaxation of uterus
     Uterus will contract
     Embryo expell
    2. Vacuum aspiration (most
    common)
     Surgery: 16 weeks
     Uterus
     Put anesthesia
     Numb (will open)
     Suction tube
    3. Dilation and curettage
     Curette= instrument
     Bet 12- 24 weeks= 21
    weeks
    4. Dilation and evacuation = surgical
    abortion
     Cervix dilated wider by
    osmotic dilator
     Absorb moisture and
    stretches the cervix (24 hrs
    before surgery)
    Instruments
     Vacuum aspiration
     Forceps
     Curette
    Worse complication = sepsis

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