{"title":"Pattern and outcome of gynaecological emergencies at a Nigerian secondary Health Care Centre","authors":"D. Buowari","doi":"10.5580/152d","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND: Gynaecological emergencies form a large proportion of workload for the doctor.METHOD: This is a prospective study of all emergencies presenting with gynaecological problems from February to November 2006 was included in this study.RESULT: 153 patients presented with gynaecological emergencies in this study. 143(93.5%) had spontaneous abortion and 10(6.5%) women had ectopic pregnancy.CONCLUSION: Emergency gynaecological practice is more stressful in Nigeria than in developed countries because of poor infrastructure and difficulty in sourcing the materials required to treat patients.","PeriodicalId":331725,"journal":{"name":"The Internet Journal of Tropical Medicine","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Internet Journal of Tropical Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5580/152d","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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BACKGROUND: Gynaecological emergencies form a large proportion of workload for the doctor.METHOD: This is a prospective study of all emergencies presenting with gynaecological problems from February to November 2006 was included in this study.RESULT: 153 patients presented with gynaecological emergencies in this study. 143(93.5%) had spontaneous abortion and 10(6.5%) women had ectopic pregnancy.CONCLUSION: Emergency gynaecological practice is more stressful in Nigeria than in developed countries because of poor infrastructure and difficulty in sourcing the materials required to treat patients.
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