Primary Care Procedures in Women's Health

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, algorithms, and a wealth of illustrations highlighting the steps in each procedure are included throughout 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 and guidelines as well as coding information. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised and one new chapter added on sexually transmitted infections. 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.