Step-by-step management of female victims of sexual assault

Various authors have published advice on the management of victims of sexual assault--male and female. Most published accounts provide general advice, ordered according to theoretical considerations rather than to the chronological sequence of tasks to be performed. Our experience has been that a task list sequenced in chronological fashion is very useful in helping the attending doctor to remember what to do and how to do it. The step-by-step list used for women seen at Perth's Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) is presented here.