NOW IN YOUR DECEMBER ISSUE

Watch your mail this week for the new issue of Contemporary OB/GYN and the following articles from the magazine you trust to deliver scientific information you can use in ob/gyn practice:

How to Manage Urolithiasis

Stone disease isn’t just a male disease anymore. Incidence is increasing faster in women than in men and the cost in the United States is $2.1 billion annually. Our cover story offers a concise overview on preventing and managing urolithiasis.

Are You Ready For Office-Based Surgery?

Making the leap to performing surgery in the office rather than an ambulatory surgery center or traditional OR takes attention to detail and involves the entire practice. In this article, a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery offers you a step-by-step plan for gearing up to operate in the office.

When to Use PT for Pelvic Floor Disorders

Pelvic floor rehabilitation can be highly effective and low risk for patients with pelvic floor disorders and it’s much more than just doing Kegel exercises.  This article offers guidelines for when to refer a patient for PT and advice on how to find a physical therapist

MFM Consult

From the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Mary E. Norton, MD, this month comes expert, case-based guidance on evaluating and managing isolated renal pelviectasis diagnosed on second-trimester ultrasound.

Guidelines at a Glance

A quick synopsis of ACOG’s Practice Bulletin #124, Inherited Thrombophilias in Pregnancy.

NOVEMBER ISSUE READER POLL

Have Your Say about Our November Issue

Contemporary OB/GYN’s editors want your opinion about our November issue. Take our four-question survey to tell us what made a difference to your practice and to give us suggestions for topics you’d like us to cover in the magazine. Read the next edition of Early Delivery for the results of the poll, which will help shape future content in Contemporary OB/GYN.

» To take the survey, click HERE

What’s new in Contemporary OB/GYN?

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Charles J. Lockwood gives you the scoop on the December issue. To listen. Click Here

Now Available

Go to www.contemporaryobgyn.net for these exclusive online extras:

Cervical Funneling and Shortening Video

Transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) reveals a dynamic change in the cervix, from an initially normal image to a funnel, as shown in this video.  Such a transformation is one of the predictors of preterm birth that author James T. Kurtzman, MD, describes in the Contemporary OB/GYN September 2011 cover story, “Preterm birth: 3 keys to assessing risk.” (Video courtesy of Joshua A. Copel, MD.)

Hysteroscopic Myomectomy Video

Watch AAGL-award winner Dr. Jon Einarsson, director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, perform a hysteroscopic myomectomy. Dr. Einarsson was chosen from among 193 entries to receive the AAGL’s Golden Laparoscope Award for his video of laparoscopic excision of deeply infiltrative endometriosis, as well as the Kurt Semm Award  for his video of laparoscopic tips and tricks. (Video courtesy of Brigham and Women’s Hospital.)

Urolithiasis Video

Dr. Manoj Monga, director of the Steven B. Streem Center for Endourology and Stone Disease, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute of the Cleveland Clinic, demonstrates the use of shock wave lithotripsy to produce fragmentation in a kidney stone. (Video courtesy of Cleveland Clinic.)

Endomyometrial Resection Video

Dr. Morris Wortman, clinical associate professor of gynecology and director of the Center for Menstrual Disorders at the University of Rochester Medical Center, takes you step-by-step through endomyometrial resection in an office setting. (Video courtesy of the University of Rochester Medical Center.)

Download and print this reference guide to current FDA-approved drugs for preventing and treating osteoporosis

Dr. Joshua Copel blogs about the use of fetal DNA to identify Down syndrome. Weigh in on the issue!

A downloadable, printable immunization checklist for your pregnant patients

Print a summary of ACOG’s Practice Bulletin #124: Inherited thrombophilias in pregnancy

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