This book provides primary care physicians and their medical teams with the detailed information they need to offer a full range of women's health procedures to their patients. Many primary care providers offer women's health procedures in an office setting for a variety of reasons, from the value placed on continuity of care to the lack of access to specialty care that patients may experience in rural areas.

Now fully revised and updated, each chapter in this book is written by a primary care physician and outlines one women's health procedure and its background information, indications, contraindications, complications, equipment, procedure steps, an office note, patient instructions and a patient handout. Tricks, helpful hints, key points, discussion questions, algorithms, and a wealth of illustrations are included through the book. There is a visual of the set up of each procedure as well as step by step instructions on performing the procedures within the office with coding and billing information. There are also post care instruction sheets for each procedure.

The third edition of Primary Care Procedures in Women's Health is fully updated with the latest procedures an guidelines as well as coding information. Each previous chapter has been thoroughly revised while two new, lengthy chapters have been added on sexually transmitted infections and fertility awareness method and natural family planning.

Written by experts in the field, this book is an ideal reference for all providers-including family physicians, general internists, residents, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physicians assistants-to be competent and comfortable performing a spectrum of office-based, women's health procedures.

Autorentext

Sandra M Sulik MD, is a family physician at St Joseph s Health and Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine Upstate Medical Center Syracuse New York.

Cathryn B. Heath, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Rutgers- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Medical Director of Rutgers University Student Health in New Brunswick.

They are co-editors of the first edition of this book and experts in women s health in family medicine

Inhalt

Introduction: The Case for Procedures in Primary Care.- Coding, Billing, and Reimbursement for Procedures.- Legal Aspects of Office-Based Women's Health Procedures.- Population Health in Women's Health Care.- Empathic Pelvic Examination.- Difficult Exams: Cystocele, Rectocele, Stenotic Cervix/Cervical Dilatation, Nonsexually Active Women, Elderly Women.- Sexual Assault Victim Examination.- Pap Smear and HPV testing.- Vaginal Discharge.- Cervical Polyp Removal.- Barrier Contraception.- Copper Intrauterine Device.- Levonorgestrel Intrauterine System Insertion.- Intrauterine Device Removal.- Fertility Awareness Method/Natural Family Planning.- Etonogestrel Subdermal Contraceptive Implant: Insertion and Removal.- Pessary.- Bartholin Gland Cysts and Abscesses.- Endometrial Biopsy.- Brest Cyst Aspiration.- Vulvar Skin Punch Biopsy.- Treatment of Genital Warts.- Colposcopy.- Cervical Cryotherapy.- LEEP: Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure.- Hysterosalpingography/Hysterosalpingogram (HSG).- Medication Abortion Using Mifepristone and Misoprostol.- Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) Abortion.- Index.