Contraception: Your Questions Answered
- 7th Edition - August 14, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: John Guillebaud, Anne MacGregor
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 0 0 0 - 6
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 7 0 3 1 - 0
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- Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) Based on the long-established evidence that 7 days of routinely not-taking pills in each cycle is too long for maintained ovarian suppression - and this necessarily leads to too little margin for errors in pill-taking - the authors recommend that providers switch to a new norm for all users of either:
- Tricycling, the 84/4 regimen, or totally continuous use (365/365),
- OR, for women who remain keen to see monthly pill-bleeds (which are completely unnecessary for health), one of the regimens (24/4 or 21/4) that shorten the contraception-non-taking time to 4 days
- New methods, and their importance or otherwise:
- Intrauterine system: Jaydess®
- Subcutaneous, self-injectable alternative to Depo-Provera: Sayana® Press
- 24/4 combined hormonal contraceptives: Zoely®, Eloine®
- Diaphragm: Caya®
- Updates
- Quick starting and bridging (the Proving not Pregnant Protocol)
- Emergency contraception (EC), how advice differs for ulipristal acetate EC
- Drug metabolism (implications with norethisterone) and interactions (eg affecting lamotrigine)
- Question and answer format
- Important information boxes
- Unwanted side effects boxes
- Frequent patient questions at the end of relevant chapters
- Management advice
- Follow-up advice
- Comes with free e-book on ExpertConsult for the first time
General Practitioners
Women’s health
Family planning
Healthcare policy
Global health
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
- Edition: 7
- Published: August 14, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702070006
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702070310
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John Guillebaud
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, University College London, UK; Trustee of the Margaret Pyke Trust, Formerly Medical Director of the Margaret Pyke Family Planning Centre, London, UKAM
Anne MacGregor
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Specialist Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Bart's Sexual Health Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Honorary Professor, Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry