Ultrasound in Reproductive Healthcare Practice

Challenge your knowledge of ultrasound to address sexual health abnormalities and early pregnancy issues, alongside identifying, classifying and managing a wide range of gynaecological conditions, with this essential manual. Authored by experts in reproductive health, this bespoke guide delivers practitioners of all levels with a broad scope of sexual and reproductive disorders, as captured by ultrasound. Presenting operational issues and suggested training, this textbook ensures high-quality care in gynaecology, sexual and reproductive health and pregnancy advisory services. For use in a traditional hospital setting through to more remote locations, this guide provides an invaluable toolkit for trainees, sonographers, nurses and clinicians worldwide. Offering clear clinical ultrasound images and extensive case studies with a focus on pregnancy advisory services, this adaptable textbook provides reliable support for those who are in contact with common, rare and understudied reproductive conditions, wishing to achieve successful diagnosis and optimal imaging first time.

    Bespoke and wide-ranging; this guide encompasses a range of understudied medical gynaecological conditions and early pregnancy issues, through to contraception and sexually transmitted infections
    First of its kind in using ultrasound as a tool to address conditions specific to sexual reproductive healthcare
    Formalises ultrasound practice within sexual reproductive healthcare for the hospital setting, and remote settings, away from mainstream radiology services
    Includes clear illustrations of clinical and ultrasound images and case studies tailored to challenging pregnancy advisory services

Mary Pillai has been clinical lead for a community pregnancy advisory and a complex contraception service at Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust, is a member of ISUOG and on the editorial board of the Journal of FPSRHC, with 35 years' experience of ultrasound in obstetric and gynaecology services.

Paula Briggs is Module Guardian for the Special Skills module in ultrasound for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust. She uses ultrasound regularly in her clinical practice and is involved in practical training of healthcare professionals in ultrasound.

Julie-Michelle Bridson, a previous president of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS), has been involved in ultrasound education and training for 25 years, forming part of many clinical areas in medical ultrasound in women's health, with the University of Liverpool, alongside the accreditation of many ultrasound courses worldwide.

Contributors: Diana Mansour, Pat Lewis, Julie-Michelle Bridson, Karen Easton, Mary Pillai, Paul O'Brien, Zara Haider, Paula Briggs, Gab Kovacs, Jane Dickson, Steven R. Goldstein, Kathryn Hillaby