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Decriminalization of abortion – A human rights imperative
Publication date: Available online 22 May 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyAuthor(s): Joanna N. Erdman, Rebecca J. CookAbstractThis chapter reviews the evolving consensus in international human rights law, first supporting the liberalization of criminal abortion laws to improve access to care and now supporting their repeal or decriminalization as a human rights imperative to protect the health, equality, and dignity of people. This consensus is based on human rights standards or the authoritative interpretations of U.N. and regional human rights treaties in general comments and recomme...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - June 19, 2019 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research

Preventing Unsafe Abortion: Achievements and Challenges of a Global Figo Initiative
Publication date: Available online 12 June 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyAuthor(s): Anibal Faundes, Rodica Comendant, Berna Dilbaz, Guyo Jaldesa, Robert Leke, Basab Mukherjee, Marina Padilla de Gil, Luis Tavara, The FIGO Initiative for the Prevention of Unsafe AbortionAbstractFIGO established the Working Group on Prevention of Unsafe abortion in 2007 and a parallel program or "Initiative" with the same name. The initiative involved 46 FIGO member societies from seven regions: South-Southeast Asia, Eastern-Central Europe & Central Asia, North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern-...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - June 12, 2019 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research

Use of histograms to assess the efficacy of uterotonic treatment for post-partum haemorrhage: A feasibility study
Publication date: Available online 21 May 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyAuthor(s): Nasreen B. Aflaifel, Nomita Chandhiok, Bukola Fawole, Stacie E. Geller, Andrew D. WeeksAbstractPost-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major pathological condition leading to mortality of women worldwide. Its initial treatment has largely been focused on uterotonics. This paper examines the use of histograms to assess the efficacy of uterotonic treatment for PPH. Previous examinations of large datasets in which women were treated at 700 ml of measured blood loss according to strict protocols have shown a q...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - June 8, 2019 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research

Ultrasound Guidance in Reproductive Surgery
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyAuthor(s): Kanna Jayaprakasan, Kamal OjhaAbstractUltrasound plays a key role in diagnosis and guidance in reproductive medicine and surgery. In the field of Reproductive surgery, some of the interventions, especially intrauterine procedures, are regularly carried out without imaging guidance but instead performed based on clinical skills and experience alone. Operative real time-US provides concurrent visualisation of the structures, contents and planes and operating instruments and therefore, has the potential t...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - May 31, 2019 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research

Assessing and managing hypovolemic shock in puerperal women
Publication date: Available online 27 May 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyAuthor(s): Rodolfo de Carvalho Pacagnella, Anderson Borovac-PinheiroAbstractThe major cause of maternal death worldwide is postpartum hemorrhage. Early identification is the basis of adequate treatment. In addition to the visual estimation of blood loss, clinical signs could offer a more reliable representation of the cardiovascular system of the bleeding woman. However, in postpartum women, recognition of hypovolemic shock through vital signs is impaired due to physiological cardiovascular changes in pregnancy. ...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - May 29, 2019 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research