Full Description
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 formatNew to this edition:New methods Combined hormonal contraception: Qlaira Implant: Nexplanon Emergency contraception: ulipristal acetateNew regimens Extended and continuous combined hormonal contraception Quick starting and bridging Updates Drug interactions and hormonal contraception Missed pill rulesNew 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
Contents
1. Introductionhistory-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.
