Medications
If a patient is admitted for a UTI with symptoms of bladder spasms, this type of medication might be prescribed to them.
What are antispasmodics?
These infections, often accompanied by very high fevers and sepsis, are spread throughout the entire body.
What are systemic infections?
With this intervention, a fake bladder is created out of a portion of the large intestines and the patient can use the bathroom like normal.
What is a neobladder?
This form of incontinence is cause by intraabdominal pressure commonly experienced while doing things like sneezing, laughing, and coughing.
What is stress incontinence?
Patients who self-catheterize should use this type of technique when using it.
This type of medication that can be prescribed to help with stress incontinence relaxes the muscles of the bladder.
What are antidepressants?
An enlarged prostate that is typically caused by cancer or steroid use is referred to by this medical term.
What is prostate hypertrophy?
This anti-incontinence device is essentially a hammock that holds the bladder in place.
What is a pessary?
A person with this type of incontinence experiences an involuntary loss of urine with a strong urge to void.
This is a single-lumen tube that is inserted for immediate drainage of the bladder and removed after the sample is obtained.
What is a straight catheter?
This medication can be prescribed to increase blood flow, which thickens and strengthens muscles.
What is estrogen?
What are renal calculi?
The ureters are rerouted directly to the surface of the skin and form a stoma with this type of urinary diversion.
This involves a loss of urine when the person does not realize the bladder is full and has no urge to void.
What is unconscious incontinence?
Also called a Foley catheter, this device is used for continuous bladder drainage and is usually a double-lumen tube with one lumen used for the urine drainage and one lumen used to inflate a balloon near the tip of the catheter to keep it in place.
What is an indwelling catheter?
This type of medication promotes urine retention by inhibiting involuntary contractions of the bladder, increasing bladder capacity, and delaying the urge to void.
What are anticholinergics?
A person with this condition has an issue within their spinal cord that causes them to be unable to determine whether the bladder is full or empty.
What is a neurogenic bladder?
This is the most commonly done urinary diversion and eliminates the need for catheterization by attaching the ureters to the ileum, and part of the ileum is brought to the surface to form a stoma. This diversion can also lead to increased UTIs.
What is a conventional urostomy?
An untimely loss of urine with no urinary or neurological cause leads to this type of incontinence, which is frequently caused by immobility, pain, external obstacles, and communication problems.
What is functional incontinence?
Catheters are sized by the diameter of the lumen and are measured with this unit, which is usually smaller for women and children than it is for men.
What is French?
This type of medication works in the brain to block nerve receptors, which helps to control urinary incontinence.
What are muscarinic receptor antagonists?
A person with this challenge may be less likely to get up to empty their bladder, which can impact metabolic rate, cause urine to become stagnant, and increase the rate of infection.
What is immobility?
This diversion is similar to an ileal conduit, but it drains into a pouch created from a portion of the large intestine, and the patient self-catheterizes through a valve inside the stoma.
What is a continent urinary reservoir?
Short-term incontinence commonly associated with UTIs and medications that is expected to resolve spontaneously is known by this term.
What is transient incontinence?
This type of catheter is used for continuous urine drainage when the urethra must be bypassed, and it is inserted through an incision above the symphysis pubis and may be sutured in place.
What is a suprapubic catheter?