Contraception: Your Questions Answered - Brossura

Guillebaud, John; MacGregor, Anne

 
9780702046193: Contraception: Your Questions Answered

Sinossi

2013 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Primary Health Care!

Now in edition 6, Contraception: Your Questions Answered has been completely revised and updated to incorporate all the latest information about contraception methods, effectiveness, mechanisms, side-effects and complications.

  • Popular question and answer format

New to this edition:

  • New methods
    • Combined hormonal contraception: Qlaira
    • Implant: Nexplanon
    • Emergency contraception: ulipristal acetate

  • New regimens
    • Extended and continuous combined hormonal contraception
    • Quick starting and bridging

  • Updates
    • Drug interactions and hormonal contraception
    • Missed pill rules

  • New co-author, Anne MacGregor

. Director of Clinical Research, the City of London Migraine Clinic

. Honorary Professor, Centre for Neuroscience & Trauma, Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

. Associate Specialist in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Barts Sexual Health Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London

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Contenuti

1. Introduction: the population explosion, sexual and contraceptive history-taking and counselling - the importance of fertility control.

2. Aspects of human fertility and fertility awareness: natural birth control.

3. Male methods of contraception.

4. Vaginal methods of contraception.

5. The combined oral contraceptive - selection and eligibility.

6. The combined oral contraceptive - follow-up arrangements and new routes of administration.

7. The progestogen-only pill.

8. Injectables and implants.

9. Intrauterine devices and systems.

10. Emergency (postcoital) contraception.

11. Contraception for the young, the not quite so young - and in future.

Further reading. Websites. Appendices.

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