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INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBSTETRIC AND GYNECOLOGIC PATIENTS
Instructions for Obstetric and Gynecologic Patients
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Third Edition

By
Hugh Miller, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
Jo Griffith, Winter Publishing Company, Tucson, AZ

Description
Thoroughly revised, the 3rd Edition of this popular resource makes it remarkably convenient to educate patients on over 200 major topics in this specialty?everything from sexually transmitted diseases and triple screen prenatal diagnostic testing...to pregnancy and related issues and hormone replacement therapy. The loose-leaf-page format makes it easy to photocopy the pages to give to patients to reinforce oral instructions, assist in health education and disease prevention, and foster informed consent. A CD-ROM included with the text offers the book's entire contents in convenient electronic form.

Audience
Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Contents
1. Athletic menorrhea
2. Adolescent Pregnancy
3. Androgen treatment or Libido management
4. Advanced Paternal Age
5. Bacterial vaginosis
6. Birth defects (teratology)
7. Chronic pelvic pain
8. Early puberty
9. Stillbirths
10. Fetal lung maturity assessment
11. Fetal macrosomia
12. First trimester fetal screening
13. Galactorrhea
14. Gartnerls duct cyst
15. Genetic technologies
16. German measles during pregnancy
17. Group B streptococcal disease prevention
18. Hypothyroidism: screening and treatment
19. Immunization during pregnancy
20. Induction of labor
21. Laparoscopically assisted vaginal delivery
22. LEEP/LLETZ
23. Liposuction
24. Mifepristone (RU-486
25. Misoprostil (cytotec)
26. Nabothian cysts
27. Operative laparoscopy
28. Operative vaginal delivery: forceps and vacuum
29. Paget's disease of the nipple
30. Pain relief during labor or obstetric analgesia and anesthesia
31. Pelvic organ prolapse
32. Pregnancy & hypertension
33. Pregnancy & thrombocytopenia
34. Pregnancy & thromboembolism: Anticoagulation treatment
35. Premature ovarian failure
36. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMMD)
37. Preterm Labor risk assessment - Fetal Fibronectin & cervical length
38. Postterm pregnancy: risks and management options
39. Rectovaginal fistula
40. Routine gynecologic cancer screening
41. Sexuality problems of middle age
42. Substance abuse
43. Tamoxifen: concerns and treatment
44. Ultrasound scanning
45. Urethral syndrome
46. Vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC)
47. Vaginitis
48. Vulvodynia

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 300 pages, publication date: JUN-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-0089-5
ISBN-10: 0-7216-0089-1
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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