Technical Resources

Vasectomy Technique:

• Engender Health:
  • No Scalpel Vasectomy Participant Manual 2007
  • No Scalpel Vasectomy Trainer Manual 2007
  • No Scalpel Vasectomy Illustrated Guide for Surgeons 2003

• American Urological Association (AUA) – Vasectomy Guidelines 2012

• Marc Goldstein, MD and Phillip Li, MD (USA)
  • No-scalpel technique 2012 Video
  • External spermatic injection Technique Paper 1992

• Michel Labrecque, MD (Canada)
  • Mini needle anesthesia technique 2015 Video / 2019 Video
  • Mini needle anesthesia presentation (pdf)
  • Vasectomy complications (Spanish) presentation (pdf)
  • No Scalpel Vasectomy Technique Paper 2011

• Douglas Stein, MD (USA)
  • NSV 2017 Video / 2018 Video
  • Amount of tissue for FI and pain and discomfort
  • Vas isolation Presentation (pdf)
  • Left vas isolation Presentation (pdf)
  • Right vas isolation Presentation (pdf)
  • Managing Challenging Cases Video Presentation

• John Curington, MD (USA)
  • NSV 2020 Video / 2021 Video

• Charles (Chic) Wilson, MD (USA)
  • Use of Madajet® for NSV AFP Letter to Editor 2001
  • NSV 2017 Video

• Ron Weiss, MD (Canada)
  • NSV 2016 Video
  • No Needle Anesthesia Urology 2005
  • No Needle Anesthesia Technique Paper 2011

• Diana Torres, MD (Colombia)
  • NSV 2021 Video

• Doron Boone, MD (UK)
  • NSV 2022 Video

• Joao Batista, MD (Brazil)
  • NSV 2020 Video

General Resources:

Anesthesia:

• Madajet XL – Medical Presentation
• Diphenhydramine as an Alternative Local Anesthetic Agent – J Clin Aesthetic Dermatol 2009

Infection control:

• Infection Prevention and Control – Engender Health Document 2011
• Disinfection Guidelines – CDC Document 2008
• Sterilization Manual – Sterilization Manual – PAHO (Spanish)

Semen Analysis:

• Semen Examination – WHO Document 2010
• PVSA Sperm Count Calculation – Spreadsheet by David Sokal, MD
• Cálculo del conteo de esperma (PVSA) – Hoja de cálculo por David Sokal, MD
• PVSA: Optimizing Laboratory Procedures – Ashok Agarwal, PhD et al (2022)
• A new approach to PVSA that eliminates the need for fresh samples – Andrology 2022

Absence of Vas Deferens:

• Congenital Unilateral Absence of Vas Deferens (CUAVD) – Int Braz J Urol 2016
• Congenital Unilateral Absence of Vas Deferens (CUAVD) – Urology Annals 2019
• A case of congenital unilateral absence of the vas deferens – International Medical Case Reports Journal 2013
• Congenital Bilateral Absence of the Vas Deferens (CBAVD) – Frontiers in Genetics 2022

Male Contraception:

• Male contraceptives – Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2020
• Acute inhibition of soluble adenylyl cyclase – Nature Communications 2023

Data:

• Contraceptive use by method booklet (UN, 2019) – United Nations Document 2019
• World Contraceptive Use 2020 (UN, 2020) – Excel Spreadsheet 2020
• Contraceptive use in the US by demographics – Guttmacher Institute 2021

Reviews :

• Infection Control:
  • Infection prevention: General principles
  • Infection prevention: Precautions for preventing transmission of infection
  • Infection control in the outpatient setting
  • Safety in the operating room
• Congenital abnormalities:
  • Overview of congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT)
  • Evaluation of congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT)
•  Contraception:
  • Contraception Counseling and selection
  • Overview of female permanent contraception
  • Overview of pregnancy termination
  • First-trimester pregnancy termination_ Medication abortion
  • Vasectomy
• Infertility:
  • Causes of male infertility
  • Approach to the male with infertility
  • Treatments for male infertility
• Male sexual dysfunction:
  • Epidemiology and etiologies of male sexual dysfunction
  • Evaluation of male sexual dysfunction
  • Treatment of male sexual dysfunction
•  BPH:
  • Clinical manifestations and diagnostic evaluation of benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Medical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Surgical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
• Hematuria:
  • Etiology and evaluation of hematuria in adults
  • Isolated and persistent glomerular hematuria in adults
  • Exercise-induced hematuria
  • Urinalysis in the diagnosis of kidney disease
• Hematospermia
  • Hematospermia
• Inflammatory / Infectious issues
  • Nonacute scrotal conditions in adults
  • Approach to infectious causes of dysuria in the adult man
  • Acute scrotal pain in adults
  • Urethritis in adult males
  • Acute bacterial prostatitis
  • Chronic bacterial prostatitis
  • Chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome
• GU Cancer:
  • Prostate:
    • Screening for prostate cancer
    • Risk factors for prostate cancer
    • Clinical presentation and diagnosis of prostate cancer
    • Interpretation of prostate biopsy
    • Localized prostate cancer: Risk stratification and choice of initial treatment
  • Testicle:
    • Epidemiology of and risk factors for testicular germ cell tumors
    • Screening for testicular cancer
    • Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and staging of testicular germ cell tumors
    • Overview of the treatment of testicular germ cell tumors
  • Bladder:
    • Screening for bladder cancer
  • Kidney:
    • Epidemiology, pathology, and pathogenesis of renal cell carcinoma
    • Clinical manifestations, evaluation, and staging of renal cell carcinoma
    • Hereditary kidney cancer syndromes
    • Overview of the treatment of renal cell carcinoma

Ultrasound Resources:

• Ultrasonography of the scrotum in adults (2015 article pdf)

• Essentials of Scrotal Ultrasound (Wi Chong, MD – 2016)