Webinar on 'The Low-Stim Abortion: Managing Pain and Anxiety in Abortion Care’

12 September 2019

On Wednesday 4 September 2019, the latest BSACP webinar was held with Dr Carmen Landau speaking about ‘The low-stim abortion: managing pain and anxiety in abortion care’.

The setting of abortion care creates expectations of pain and anxiety for many patients. Abortion providers develop a variety of skills to help their patients feel more comfortable, and in this session we will discuss non-pharmacological and pharmacological techniques, including trauma-informed care modalities, speculum placement strategies, paracervical block variations, and other ways to reduce the more challenging sensations common during abortion procedures.

Carmen Landau is a Physician and Associate Medical Director at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA where she provides abortion care in all trimesters. Advanced abortion care, pain management for drug-using patients, and caring for survivors of trauma are her areas of particular interest.

Webinars are a membership benefit of BSACP and are open/free of charge to members. Non-members may join BSACP at: https://bsacp.org.uk/about-bsacp/membership/

NB. A recording of this webinar and the resultant Q&A session is available in the members’-only area of the BSACP website.