Systematic Reviews of Interventions Related to Abortion

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions related to abortion.

Created August 2011

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Title:   Preparing the cervix with nitric oxide donors before surgical abortion in the first three months of pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Possible complications of surgical abortion in the first three months of pregnancy include injury to the cervix (the neck of the womb) and the womb itself. Preparing the cervix before surgery might make the procedure safer and easier. There are several ...
Date:   Oct 2011
Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis for first trimester induced abortion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Infection of the upper genital tract, including the uterus and fallopian tubes, can cause complications after induced abortion. Antibiotics given around the time of the abortion (prophylaxis) could prevent this complication. We found 19 randomised contr...
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Surgical procedures to evacuate incomplete miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vacuum aspiration is a safe and quick treatment for incomplete miscarriages. Bleeding and infection generally result if the uterus is not emptied after incomplete miscarriage (where parts of the products of conception are left in the uterus). The review...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Inserting an IUD right after abortion or miscarriage versus a later time
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Inserting an intrauterine device (IUD) right after an abortion or miscarriage can be good for many reasons. The woman is not pregnant and may be thinking about birth control. The time and place are convenient for the woman. If asked to delay IUD inserti...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Misoprostol for induction of labour to terminate pregnancy in the second or third trimester for women with a fetal anomaly or following intrauterine fetal death
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A woman may need to give birth prior to the spontaneous onset of labour in middle to late pregnancy to terminate the pregnancy in situations where the fetus, if born alive, would not survive or would have permanent handicaps, or where the fetus has died...
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Medical methods for early termination of pregnancy can be safe and effective
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There are several different surgical techniques for abortion during the first three months. Several drugs can also be prescribed alone or in combination to terminate early pregnancy. This is called medical abortion, and uses the hormones prostaglandins ...
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Planned abortion after three months of pregnancy can be done using several medicines. This review looked at which medical procedure is the best.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There are many medical methods for planned termination of pregnancy in the second trimester of pregnancy (abortion after three months). We did a search of the scientific literature to find out which is the best method. We identified 38 studies and came ...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Medical methods for early termination of pregnancy can be safe and effective.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There are several different surgical techniques for early termination of pregnancy (abortion in the first three months). Several drugs can also be prescribed alone or in combination to terminate early pregnancy. This is called medical abortion, and uses...
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Reduction of the number of fetuses for women with triplet and higher order multiple pregnancies
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No strong evidence about the effects of reducing the number of fetuses in women pregnant with triplets or higher order multiples (three or more fetuses). When a woman carries three or more babies in pregnancy, there may be difficult decisions to face. T...
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   The review found that both, D& C and vacuum aspiration, are safe and effective methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy and complications are rare.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There are several different surgical techniques for early termination of pregnancy (abortion in the first three months). These are dilatation and curettage (D& C to scrape out the contents of the uterus), vacuum aspiration (sucking out the contents o...
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Preparation of the uterine cervix before evacuation of second-trimester pregnancy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Abortion during the second trimester of pregnancy accounts for 10-15% of abortions performed worldwide (Finer 2005; Stat. Service. 2005; WHO 1997). Surgical evacuation, called dilation and evacuation (D& E), is the preferred method of second-trimeste...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Pain control in first trimester surgical abortion.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Multiple methods of pain control in first trimester surgical abortion at less than 14 weeks gestational age using electric or manual suction aspiration are available, and appear both safe and effective. Pain control methods can be divided in local anest...
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   Abortion after three months of pregnancy can be done by an operation or with medicines. This review looked at which way is better.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   We did computer searches to find studies that compared any operation to any medicine used for abortion at this stage of pregnancy. We wrote to researchers and looked through book chapters and other articles to find more studies. We found two studies. Th...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Not enough evidence on routine antibiotics to prevent infection for women seeking care after incomplete abortion, but a single dose may be more suitable
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Incomplete abortions cause many complications and the deaths of tens of thousands of women each year. Women who seek health care after an incomplete abortion usually come for problems from bleeding too much or infection. Antibiotics are generally given ...
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Paracervical local anaesthesia for cervical dilatation and uterine interventions
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Paracervical block involves injection of local anaesthetic around the cervix to numb nearby nerves. Cervical dilatation and uterine interventions (such as hysteroscopies, endometrial biopsies, fractional curettage, and suction terminations) can be perfo...
Date:   Jan 2006

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