The Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (FFPRHC) has recently published Service Standards for Workload in Contraception, which state that a minimum of 20 minutes should be made available for intrauterine device/hormonal system (IUD/IUS) provision. This document acknowledges that there is currently little formal evidence relating to assessment of time taken for providing vari...

The primary purpose of this paper is to assess the efficacy of the use of the intrauterine device (IUD) as an adjunctive treatment modality, for intrauterine adhesions (IUAs). All eligible literatures were identified by electronic databases including PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. Additional relevant articles were identified from citations in these publications. There were 28 studies inclu...

Intrauterine devices (IUDs) remain highly effective reversible family planning methods in developing countries. We aimed to report one of the complications of extrauterine and intrauterine devices. A 44-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with mislocated intrauterine device and abnormal uterine bleeding. Extrauterine IUD device was proven by ultrasound and X-ray. She had normal blood te...