temporary or permanent involuntary passage of urine
What is incontinence?
100
being awakened at night by the need to void
What is nocturia?
100
Device attached to the skin to catch urine, mostly useful for men
What is an external catheter/condom catheter/Texas catheter?
200
difficult or painful urination
What is dysuria?
200
red blood cells in the urine
What is hematuria?
200
sudden, almost uncontrollable desire to urinate IMMEDIATELY
What is urge incontinence?
200
production of a larger than normal amount of urine, assuming intake is not excessive.
What is polyuria?
200
Pelvic muscle exercises used to strengthen the muscles, consisting of clenching the same muscles used to voluntarily cut off the flow of urine
What are Kegel exercises?
300
sudden overwhelming need to urinate
What is urinary urgency?
300
some urine remains in the bladder after the person has urinated
What is urinary retention?
300
dribbling whenever abdominal pressure is increased
What is stress incontinence?
300
increased urine output when it is due to ingestion of substances that stimulate urine production
What is diuresis?
300
a catheter inserted directly into the bladder through a surgical incision in the abdominal wall
What is a suprapubic catheter?
400
urination at shorter than usual intervals (without an increase in the total daily urine output)
What is urinary frequency?
400
an infection occurring in any portion of the urinary
tract
What is urinary tract infection?
400
occurring in patients with spinal cord injury above the level of the 3rd sacral vertebra, the patient has no sensation of the need to urinate, and urinates spontaneously whenever a certain bladder volume is reached
What is reflex incontinence?
400
the absence of urine
What is anuria?
400
ureters are disconnected from the bladder and connected to a segment of the ileum which in turn is made into a stoma
What is an ileal conduit?
500
difficulty/delay in starting the urinary stream; often with a decreased force of the stream
What is urinary hesitancy?
500
infection of the substance of the kidney itself
What is pyelonephritis?
500
incontinence due either to cognitive problems or difficulty mobilizing to make it to the toilet in time or prepare self to urinate
What is functional incontinence?
500
when fluid intake is normal, the diminished flow of urine of less than 30 mL per hour
What is oliguria?
500
involves hanging a large bag of saline that connects and flows continuously into a triple lumen bladder catheter at the rate needed to keep the urine pink or rose color