Contraception: Your Questions Answered

Guillebaud MA FRCSEd FRCOG(Hon) FFSRH(Hon) FCOG(SA), John; MacGregor MBBS MSc MD FFSRH MICR DIPM, Anne

ISBN 10: 0702046191 / ISBN 13: 9780702046193

Editore: Churchill Livingstone, 2012

Codice articolo U9780702046193

Riassunto:

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

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.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Contraception: Your Questions Answered
Casa editrice: Churchill Livingstone
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: 41719229
autografato: 2/13/2024 6:59:31 AM
Edizione: 1707807571.