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Contraception Flashcards

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Perfect contraception

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  • 100% Reliable
  • 100% Safe
  • Non User Dependent
  • Unrelated to Coitus
  • Visible to the Woman
  • No ongoing Medical Input
  • Completely reversible within 24 hours
  • No Discomfort
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Methods which require ongoing action by the individual

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Oral contraception
Barrier methods
Fertility awareness 
Coitus Interrupts 
Oral emergency  contraception
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Methods which prevent conception by default

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IUCD/IUI/IUS
Progestogen Implants
Progestogen Injections
Sterilisation

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Risk of treatment

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Cardiovascular 
Neoplastic 
Emotional 
Infection related 
Allergic 
Iatrogenic
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Risk of no treatment

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Childbirth related
Abortion related
Social costs
Economic costs

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Benefits of treatment

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Non contraception 
Psychosexual 
Choice
Sexual health
Cost savings
Female equality
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Benefits of no treatments

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Non interference
Population growth
Control of women

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Progestogens

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  • Older (2nd generation) – Norethisterone (Norethindrone) & Levonorgestrel
  • Newer(3rd generation) – Desogestrel, Gestodene & Norgestimate (Noregestromin)
  • Latest (derived from Spironolactone) - Drospirenone
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How does oestrogen work

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  • On anterior pituitary & hypothalamus
  • Directly on the ovary
  • On the Endometrium
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How does progestogen work?

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  • On anterior pituitary & hypothalamus
  • Directly on the ovary
  • On the Endometrium
  • On the fallopian tubes
  • On cervical mucus
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Combined oral contraception - benefits

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1. Contraception 
•	Reliable
•	Safe
•	Unrelated to coitus
•	Woman in control
•	Rapidly reversible
  1. Non contraception
    • Halve ca ovary
    • Halve ca endometrium
    • Helps endometriosis, menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea
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Risks

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Cardiovascular - Arterial - Progestogen , HBP, smoking
Venous - Oestrogen-VTE-clotting disorders (DVT, PE, Migraine)
Neoplastic - Breast cervix, liver
Gastrointestinal -COH/insulin metabolism, Weight gain, Crohns disease
Hepatic - hormone metabolisms, congenital nonhaemolytic jaundices, gall stones
Dermatological - Chloasma, acne, erythema multiforme
Psychological - Mood swings, depression, Libido

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Pill rules

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  • Start 1st packet 1st day of a menstrual period
  • Take 21 pills and stop for 7 day break (PFI)
  • Restart each new packet on 8th day (same)
  • Do not start new packets late
  • If late or missed pills in 1st 7 days, condoms
  • If missed pills in last 7 days no PFI
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Interacting medication

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Liver enzyme inducing drugs - see list/MIMS

  1. Affect metabolising of both oestrogen and progestogen
  2. Beware rifampicin and anti-epileptics
    1. Broad spectrum antibiotics
  4. Affect enterohepatic circulation of oestrogen only (40%)
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Combined vaginal contraceptive

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  • Same as COCP except vaginal delivery (ring) for 21 days
  • Remove for 7 days
  • Advantage – don’t have to take every day
  • Disadvantage - don’t have to take every day!!
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Progestogen only methods

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Default Methods
Implants:  Nexplanon  Norplant (LNG)
Hormone releasing IUCD:
 Mirena IUS (LNG)
Default Methods
Implants:  Nexplanon  Norplant (LNG)
Hormone releasing IUCD:
 Mirena IUS (LNG)
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Why cerelle is better than older POPs

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  • As effective as COCP
  • No oestrogen – CIs e.g. breastfeeding
  • Favourable side effect profile vs older POPS
  • Bleeding as predictable as COCP
  • 12 hour window
18
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IUDCs

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Copper bearing intrauterine contraceptive devices are inserted into the uterus by suitably trained practitioners and may be left in situ long term and act by
1. Destroying spermatozoa
2. Preventing implantation – Inflammatory reaction and prostaglandin secretion as well as a mechanical effect.
All IUCDs can be left in situ for 5 years whatever the makers inserts say. Any device inserted after the 40th birthday could be left in until after the menopause if the woman wishes without being replaced

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Benefits of IUDCs

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  • Non user dependent
  • Immediately and retrospectively effective
  • Immediately reversible
  • Can be used long term
  • Extremely reliable
  • Unrelated to coitus
  • Free from serious medical dangers
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Disadvantages of IUDCs

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  • Has to be fitted by trained medical personnel
  • Fitting may cause pain or discomfort
  • Periods may become heavier & painful
  • It does not offer protection against infection
  • Threads may be felt by the male
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Risks

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  • Miscarriage if left in situ if a pregnancy
  • ectopics
  • May be expelled
  • The uterus may be perforated
  • Removal in the early weeks before the threads are lost is unlikely to result in miscarriage
  • It protects against all forms of pregnancy, but less well against ectopics
  • Infection may be introduced at insertion (max at 3/52), but it does not increase likelihood of “catching” infection or make PID worse if left in situ. Careful sexual history is best guide here.
  • Expulsion more likely in 1st 3/12. Perforation is 1/1000 insertions
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Absolute contraindications for IUCDs

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  • Current pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Suspected or known pregnancy
  • Unexplained vaginal bleeding
  • Abnormalities of the uterine cavity
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Relative containdications

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  • Nulliparity
  • Past history of pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Not in mutually monogamous relationship
  • Menorrhagia / Dysmenorrhoea
  • Small uterine fibroids
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Condoms Male Advantages

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Man in control
Protects against STIs
No serious health risks
Easily available (free at family planning clinics)

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Condom Female Advantage

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Woman in Control
Protects against STIs
Can be put in advance and left inside after erection lost
Not dependent on male erection to work

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Disadvantages of condoms (male)

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Last minute use
Needs to be taught
May cause allergies
May cause psychosexual difficulties
Higher failure rate among some couples
Oil preparations rot rubber
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Disadvantages of condoms (female)

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Obstrusive
Expensive
Messy
Rustles during sex
Uncertain failure rate
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Caps -Diaphragm

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Made of latex
Fit across vagina
Sizes 55 – 95 mmin 5 cm jumps
Must be used with spermicide and left in at least 6 hours after sexual intercourse

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Caps - Suction (cervical)

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Suitable for women with poor pelvic muscles

No problems with rubber allergies

Very unobtrusive

Woman in control

30
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Disadvantages of diaphragm caps

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Needs to be taught

Messy
Higher failure rate than most other methods

Higher UTI

Higher Candiasis

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Disadvantages of Suction caps

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Needs an accessible and suitable cervix

Higher failure rate than diaphragm

Not easy to find experienced teacher

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Fertility awareness

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  • Prediction of ovulation ? 14/7 before period
  • Sperm can survive 5 days in female tract
  • Ova can survive 24 hours
  • Ova are fertilised in the fallopian tube and take 4 days to reach the uterus and implant
  • Cervical mucus is receptive to sperm around the time of ovulation
  • Use Periodic Abstinence/alternative contraception to avoid pregnancy
  • Time intercourse to pre-ovulatory phase to conceive
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Natural family planning

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  • Temperature
  • Rhythm
  • Cervix position
  • Cervical mucus
  • Persona
  • Lactational amenorrhoea (LAM)
34
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Fertility Awareness - advantages

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Non medical
Can be used in 3rd world

Allowed by Catholic church

• Can result in closeness of understanding between partners

35
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Fertility Awareness - disadvantage

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Failure rate heavily user dependent

Requires skilled teaching

May require cooperation between partners

May involve limiting sexual activity

Can cause strain

36
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Emergency contraception

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• Postcoital Pills
• Up to 72 hours after unprotected sexual intercourse (UPSI)
• Schering PC4 – prevents 3 out of 4 pregnancies which would have occurred
• Levonelle – prevents
7 out of 8 pregnancies
• ellaOne (ulipristal)– similar
• Copper bearing IUCDs
• Up to 5 days after presumed ovulation or 5 days after one single episode of UPSI at any time of the cycle
• Failure extremely rare
Not abortion. The law of the land defines implantation as the time of pregnancy and takes the view that you cannot have abortion if there was no pregnancy (no miscarriage without carriage)

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PC4

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  • Lower failure rate in 1st 24 hours.
  • Causes nausea & vomiting in many women

• Contraindicated during focal Migraine attack

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Levonelle 2

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  • Lower failure rate in 1st 24 hours
  • Very little nausea
  • Only contraindicated in women taking very potent liver enzyme medication (anti TB)
39
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Postcoital contraception

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Catholic women may be concerned that at blastocyst is not “killed” if they believe that life begins with fertilisation rather than implantation.
The best evidence for pills is that they prevent or post pone ovulation. The evidence that they work at or after ovulation is less good. It may be that women in the second half of the cycle are unlikely to conceive. It may be worth explaining to women at mid cycle that an IUCD may be more reliable at this time.

Physiology 2 : Reproduction and bones (13 decks)

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