Gynaecology
Menopause & HRT
Stages and diagnosis, counselling on benefits and risks, prescribing HRT, follow-up, side effects and stopping, and bleeding on HRT.
Guides
16 guides
Gynaecology
Menopause beyond HRT
Non-hormonal treatment of vasomotor symptoms, genitourinary syndrome, bone health, POI and early menopause, and options without HRT.
Gynaecology
Abnormal cervical screening & colposcopy
Who and when to screen, reading the report, ASCCP and NHS triage, colposcopy, treating CIN, AGC and AIS, and test of cure.
Obstetrics
Antenatal care & the routine clinic visit
Visit schedule, booking history and tests, ultrasound and screening, supplements and vaccines, risk add-ons and common questions.
Labour & Delivery / On-call
First stage of labour & intrapartum resuscitation
Latent and active phase, monitoring and judging progress, slow progress and arrest, oral intake and fluids, and intrauterine resuscitation.
Labour & Delivery / On-call
Second stage of labour & operative vaginal birth
Head position and station, pushing, delay and malposition, operative vaginal birth, caesarean at full dilation and the perineum.
Labour & Delivery / On-call
Third stage of labour & postpartum haemorrhage
Preventing PPH, measuring and escalating, uterotonics, retained placenta, massive haemorrhage, DIC, inversion and secondary PPH.
Gynaecology
Abnormal uterine bleeding & hormonal treatment
FIGO definitions and PALM-COEIN, assessment and biopsy, progestin and COC regimens, acute heavy bleeding and hyperplasia.
Gynaecology
Contraception & troubleshooting
Choosing a method, UKMEC and US MEC eligibility, quick starting, postpartum options, emergency contraception and problems.
Obstetrics
Gestational diabetes & hyperglycaemia in pregnancy
Screening and OGTT criteria, glucose targets, insulin and metformin, fetal testing, timing of birth and postpartum testing.
Obstetrics
Physiological changes of pregnancy
How pregnancy shifts normal values system by system, and which results to reassure, check or act on.
Gynaecology
Early pregnancy bleeding & pregnancy of unknown location
Confirming pregnancy loss, interpreting hCG, managing PUL, miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy, and anti-D.
Labour & Delivery / On-call
Induction of labour & cervical ripening
Bishop score, balloon and misoprostol ripening, oxytocin, tachysystole, failed induction and induction after caesarean.
Obstetrics
Hypertensive disorders & pre-eclampsia
Classification, treating severe-range blood pressure, magnesium sulphate, aspirin prophylaxis and timing of birth.
Obstetrics
PPROM & periviable rupture
Diagnosis, latency antibiotics, steroids and magnesium, timing of birth, and counselling for periviable rupture.
Obstetrics
Preterm labour & cervical insufficiency
Diagnosis with cervical length and fFN, tocolysis, steroids, magnesium neuroprotection and cervical insufficiency.