05: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease - Part 3 - a podcast by Ob/Gyn.fm

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Pelvic inflammatory disease to PID has been a factor in the lives of women in the western world for at least 500 year. It effects up to 5% of US women at sometime during their life and its effects can be long-lasting and devastating. In this episode, part 3 of 3, we discuss the treatment and prevention of PID along with a detour into antibiotics.

 

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  2. Lachlan Aitken. Remarks on Pelvic Peritonitis and Pelvic Cellulitis. Baltimore Medical Journal. 1870. Volume 1
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  4. Howard Kelly. Operative Gynecology - Volume 2. 1898
  5. Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines. CDC. 2015
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  7. P. Oakeschott et al. Randomised controlled trial of screening for Chlamydia trachomatis to prevent pelvic inflammatory disease: the POPI (prevention of pelvic infection) trial. BMJ 2010; 340

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