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Delaying treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is unethical.
2003 SEP 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Delaying treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is unethical.
According to published research from Canada, "ectopic or tubal pregnancy presents a medical emergency that requires prompt treatment in order to contain risks of maternal death and morbidity, including loss of future fertility. Medical circumstances involving individual patients and resources of the prevailing health care system will determine the options and means of treatment. Termination of ectopic pregnancy does not constitute or directly implicate abortion."
"Any practice of deliberately delaying treatment of reliably diagnosed ectopic pregnancy, on non-clinical grounds, until rupture of the fallopian tube has occurred or is imminent, in order to justify termination of the ectopic pregnancy on grounds of saving the patient's life, is unethical and illegal," wrote B.M. Dickens and colleagues, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine.
"Those who undertake or counsel deliberate delay of medically-indicated treatment can be charged with criminal ...
- Delaying treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is unethical.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week September 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Ectopic Pregnancy.
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- Ectopic Pregnancy.(Women's Health Advisor 2004.1)
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What is an ectopic pregnancy? An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that takes place outside the uterus. The most common site of an ectopic pregnancy is one of the fallopian tubes. An ectopic pregnancy...
- Ectopic pregnancy - United States, 1990-1992.
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report January 27, 1995 700+ words
Ectopic pregnancy is the leading cause of pregnancy...trimester (1). Women who have one ectopic pregnancy are at increased risk for another...number of hospitalizations for ectopic pregnancy increased from 17,800 in 1970...
- Ectopic pregnancy surveillance, United States, 1970-1987.
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Nederlof, Kees P. Lawson, Herschel W. Saftlas, Audrey F. Atrash, Hani K. Finch, Evelyn L. December 1, 1990 700+ words
...the rate of hospitalizations due to ectopic pregnancy and the number of women hospitalized...those reported in 1986. Although ectopic pregnancy represented 1.7% of all pregnancies...decreased slightly in 1987, the risk of ectopic pregnancy remained 1.4 times higher for women...