{"id":25636,"date":"2017-05-10T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toh.wpengine.com\/en\/?p=25636"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:04:17","slug":"early-pregnancy-loss-program-helps-patients-heal-and-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/early-pregnancy-loss-program-helps-patients-heal-and-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Early pregnancy loss program helps patients heal and move forward"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lindsey Davis (left) and fellow team members Samantha Monuk, Dr. Pamela Berger and Dr. Amanda Black from the MVA program were selected to present their quality improvement program during Nursing Professional Development Day on May 10 \u2013 part of Nursing Week, May 7 to 13.<\/em><\/p>\n

Early pregnancy loss \u2013 the most common complication in the early months of pregnancy\u2013 can be traumatic and have long-lasting effects on a woman and her family. Receiving treatment in the obstetrics unit, surrounded by new moms who have just given birth, can make healing from the loss even more difficult.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why a team from The Ottawa Hospital introduced a program that allows women with early pregnancy loss to receive timely medical treatment in a space just for them, along with support and counselling for their emotional needs as well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe emotional needs of women and their families who have experienced early pregnancy loss are important and they\u2019re different than the general obstetrics population,\u201d said RN Lindsey Davis, who works in the Family Planning and MVA programs. \u201cIt\u2019s important to address so they can heal and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The new outpatient manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) program was introduced at the Shirley E. Greenberg Women\u2019s Health Centre at the Riverside Campus by RN Lindsey Davis, Dr. Pamela Berger, Dr. Amanda Black, Manager Chantal Menard and RPN Samantha Monuk. They were selected to present their quality improvement program during Nursing Professional Development Day on May 10 \u2013 part of Nursing Week, May 7 to 13.<\/p>\n

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Launched in November 2015, the program offers services two days a week. It addresses both the emotional and medical needs of the women by providing them with the support, counselling and timely treatment they require.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s nothing new in terms of the procedure,\u201d said Davis. \u201cIt\u2019s the environment it\u2019s done in that\u2019s key because it\u2019s their own environment where they can feel that their needs are being addressed in a very specific way. Their needs are different than the needs of a mom who has just delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Berger said the outpatient program also reduces the amount of time women spend waiting to have the procedure done.<\/p>\n

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Once a woman has been diagnosed with early pregnancy loss and has chosen MVA, she\u2019ll be contacted with an appointment within two days of the referral. The procedure is then performed in the Minimally Invasive Surgical Suite. Patients are usually able to go home within an hour. Nurses provide ongoing support and ensure the patients are stable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early pregnancy loss \u2013 the most common complication in the early months of pregnancy\u2013 can be traumatic and have long-lasting effects on a woman and her family. Receiving treatment in the obstetrics unit, surrounded by new moms who have just given birth, can make healing from the loss even more difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":25637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[480,276,174],"class_list":["post-25636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-compassion","tag-mental-health","tag-womens-health"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}