
Contraception: Your Questions Answered
- 7th Edition - June 16, 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: June 16, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 608
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702070006
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702070310
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