Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2023; 83(10): 1205-1220
DOI: 10.1055/a-2078-8118
GebFra Science
Guideline/Leitlinie

Abortion in the First Trimester. Guideline of the DGGG (S2k-Level, AWMF Registry No. 015-094, December 2022) – Part 1 with Recommendations on Care Structures, Information and Advice on Decision-Making, Measures Before Abortion and Medical Abortion

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Matthias David
1   Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Klinik für Gynäkologie, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
,
Anne Achtenhagen
2   donum vitae e. V., Beratungsstelle Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, Germany
,
Christian Bamberg
3   Klinik und Poliklinik für Geburtshilfe und Pränatalmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
,
Cornelia Bormann
4   Frauenklinik an der Elbe, Deichtor Center, Hamburg, Germany
,
Ursula Felderhoff-Müser
5   Klinik für Kinderheilkunde I Neonatologie, Päd. Intensivmedizin, Päd. Infektiologie, Neuropädiatrie Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Essen, Germany
,
Sylvia Groth
6   Arbeitskreis Frauengesundheit in Medizin, Psychotherapie und Gesellschaft (AKF) e. V., Berlin, Germany
,
Kristina Hänel
7   Gießen, Germany
,
Klaus König
8   Essen-Werden, Germany
,
Matthias Korell
9   Klinik für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe mit Brustzentrum am Johanna-Etienne-Krankenhaus, Neuss, Germany
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Susanne Michl
10   Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Silke Redler
11   Institut für Humangenetik, Medizinische Fakultät und Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Ekkehard Schleußner
12   Klinik für Geburtsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
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Helga Seyler
13   Familienplanungszentrum, Hamburg, Germany
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Markus Wallwiener
14   Universitäts-Frauenklinik, Heidelberg, Germany
,
Stephanie Wallwiener
15   Universitätsfrauenklinik Heidelberg, Sektion Geburtshilfe, Heidelberg, Germany
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Abstract

Purpose The aim was to develop evidence-based recommendations where possible. The guideline presents the medical principles and scientific evidence for indications, the counselling of affected women, performing terminations, the choice of method, and the care and monitoring of a terminated pregnancy up until week 12 + 0 of gestation p. c.

Methods In accordance with the requirements for S2k-guidelines, the contents of the guideline were drafted following a systematic search of the literature by a representative interdisciplinary group of experts. Guideline authors held several formal meetings under the auspices of the German Society for Gynaecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) during which the contents of the guideline were finalised and agreed upon.

Recommendations A total of 61 recommendations are provided, covering care structures, provision of information and counselling to support decision-making, the measures to be taken before terminating the pregnancy, and medical termination of the pregnancy.

Key words

guideline - abortion - medical termination of pregnancy - surgical termination of pregnancy - 1st trimester


Publication History

Received: 11 April 2023

Accepted: 14 April 2023

Article published online:
05 October 2023

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