Table 2.
Procedure outcomes extracted from a case series of patients 18 weeks and zero days to 23 weeks and six days gestation receiving outpatient medical management with procedural evacuation backup. Arizona, 2017 to 2021
| Overall sample |
Completed with medications alone |
Completed with medications and procedural evacuation |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 359) | (n = 228) | (n = 131) | |
| Time from mifepristone to first self-administered dose of misoprostol at 6 AM (hours)a | |||
| Median (IQR) | 19 (18.2;20) | 19 (18;20) | 19 (18.3;20) |
| Total amount of misoprostol taken (mcg) | |||
| Median (IQR) | 1465 (1400;1800) | 1594 (1400;1800) | |
| Time from first dose of misoprostol to fetal expulsion (hours) | |||
| Median (IQR) | 6 (5.2;7.5) | ||
| Fetal expulsion at home prior to taking misoprostol | 3 (1.3) | ||
| 2–3 hrs | 4 (1.8) | ||
| 3.1–6 hrs | 108 (48.0) | ||
| 6.1–9 hrs | 102 (45.3) | ||
| 9.1–11 hrs | 9 (4.0) | ||
| Length of procedural evacuation procedure (mins) | |||
| Median (IQR) | 10.0 (6;14) | ||
| 2–10 mins | 82 (62.6) | ||
| 11–20 mins | 34 (25.9) | ||
| 21–30 mins | 8 (6.1) | ||
| 31–40 mins | 4 (3.0) | ||
| 41–60 mins | 3 (2.3) | ||
| Safety incidents | |||
| Major adverse events | 2 (0.01) | ||
| Minor adverse events | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Morbidity | 0 (0.0) |
a
Does not include patients that did not take any misoprostol.