Society guideline links: Ectopic pregnancy

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth – A guide for midwives and doctors, second edition (2017)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on ultrasound evaluation of first trimester complications of pregnancy (2016)

United States

●Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Cesarean scar pregnancy (2020)

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): Practice parameter for the performance of a focused ultrasound examination in reproductive endocrinology and female infertility (2019)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Practice bulletin on tubal ectopic pregnancy (2018)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Clinical policy – Critical issues in the initial evaluation and management of patients presenting to the emergency department in early pregnancy (2017)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on first trimester vaginal bleeding (2017)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on ultrasound in pregnancy (2016)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute pelvic pain in the reproductive age group (2015)

●Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU): Diagnostic criteria for nonviable pregnancy early in the first trimester (2014)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage – Diagnosis and initial management (2019, updated 2023)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)/Association of Early Pregnancy Units (AEPU): Green-top guideline on diagnosis and management of ectopic pregnancy (2016)

●NICE: Quality standard on ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage (2014)

Australia–New Zealand

●Department for Health and Wellbeing, Government of South Australia (SA Health): South Australian perinatal practice guideline on bleeding & pain in early pregnancy – Ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, and PUL (2019)

●Queensland Health: Clinical guideline on early pregnancy loss (2017, amended 2018)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology (JSIR): Guidelines for IVR practitioners for obstetric critical hemorrhage (2017, updated 2018)

●[In English] JSIR: Procedural guidelines on interventional radiology for critical hemorrhage in obstetrics (2015)