Contraception : your questions answered
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Contraception : your questions answered
Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2013
6th ed
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Description based on 2015 printing
Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-532) and index
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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
Table of Contents
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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