By What nursing action is required for a woman with a threatened abortion?
Many cases of threatened abortion require no treatment at all. Treatment, if needed, may include: Bed rest or limited activity; may be needed for heavy bleeding. Medicine—to treat some causes; may include progesterone a female hormone that supports a pregnancy.
What is threaten abortion?
A threatened abortion is defined as vaginal bleeding before 20 weeks gestational age in the setting of a positive urine and/or blood pregnancy test with a closed cervical os, without passage of products of conception and without evidence of a fetal or embryonic demise.
Can a threatened abortion survive?
Threatened miscarriage It can last days or weeks and the cervix is still closed. The pain and bleeding may go away and you can continue to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Or things may get worse and you go on to have a miscarriage. There is rarely anything a doctor, midwife or you can do to protect the pregnancy.
How do you treat an incomplete abortion?
Introduction: Surgical treatment is the treatment of choice for the management of incomplete abortion. Uterine curettage is a procedure widely used; manual vacuum aspiration is another safe therapeutic option. Long-term complications of these methods are intrauterine adhesions and adenomyosis.
Can bed rest Prevent miscarriage?
Neither bed rest in hospital nor bed rest at home showed a significant difference in the prevention of miscarriage. There was a higher risk of miscarriage in those women in the bed rest group than in those in the human chorionic gonadotrophin therapy group with no bed rest (RR 2.50, 95% CI 1.22 to 5.11).
How do I know abortion?
Here are some of the symptoms of a miscarriage:
- heavy spotting.
- vaginal bleeding.
- discharge of tissue or fluid from your vagina.
- severe abdominal pain or cramping.
- mild to severe back pain.
What are the side effects of incomplete abortion?
The most common side effects primarily are nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, fever, and chills. Although the occurrence of serious complications such as bleeding requiring transfusion, uterine rupture, and infection are rare, they are more frequent in second than in first trimester abortion.