Primary Care Procedures in Women's Health

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sulik, Sandra M. (Editor), Heath, Cathryn B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Family medicine.; Gynecology.; Internal medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Internal Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76604-1

There are many reasons for primary care providers to offer womens health procedures in an office setting, from the value patients place on continuity of care to the lack of access to specialty care that patients may experience in rural areas. Primary Care Procedures in Womens Health has been desig...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The case for procedures in primary care
• Coding, billing, and reimbursement for procedures
• Legal aspects of office-based women's health procedures
• Empathic pelvic examination
• Difficult exams: Cystocele, rectocele, stenotic cervix/cervical dilatation, non-sexually active women, elderly women
• Sexual assault victim examination
• Pap smear
• Vaginal discharge
• Cervical polyp removal
• Diaphragm and cervical cap
• Copper intrauterine device
• Levonorgestrel intrauterine system insertion
• Intrauterine device removal
• Natural family planning
• Implanon: Insertion and removal
• Pessary
• Bartholin gland cycsts and abscesses
• Endometrial biopsy
• Breast cyst aspiration
• Vulvar skin 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
• Botulinum toxin A injections for reduction of facial rhytids
• Use of cosmetic lasers in clinical practice
• Glycolic peels
• Index.