Multidisciplinary experience in the selection of patients for tubal sterilization

• Main Authors: Ricardo Barini, Aarão Mendes Pinto-Neto, Lúcia Helena Simões Costa, Arlete de Souza Barros, Nádia Maria Marchi, Lúcia de Lourdes Ferreira, Ermelinda Maria Bueno, Akemi Murayama, Cláudia Sampaio do Nascimento, Laise Potério dos Santos Hinz, Olivia Josane Barreto de Almeida
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
• Series: São Paulo Medical Journal
• Subjects: Tubal ligation; Evaluation protocol; Criteria for indication of surgery
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31801995000100009&lng=en&tlng=en

Results of the use of a special protocol for evaluation of patients requiring tubal ligation is presented after applied by a multidisciplinary group. The authors conclude that the use of defined parameters of age, parity, marital union duration, number of children alive and the presence of maternal clinical pathology are useful to identify patients with smaller chances of regret after surgery.