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30 Cards in this Set
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Acute incontinence
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Recent and abrupt onset of incontinence.
Related to an acute illness or injury. Causes are reversible |
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Causes of acute incont
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Delerium
Infection Atrophic urethritis Pharmaceuticals Psychological Excess urine Restricted mobility Stool impaction |
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Alpha-adrenergic receptor antagonists
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Class of antihypertensives that cause relaxation of the smooth muscle in the bladder neck and urethra.
May cause/worsen stress incontinence in women. |
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Fecolith
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Ball of poop
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Types of chronic incontinence
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Stress
Urge Functional Total Overactive Reflex Mixed Enuresis |
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Which of the types of chronic urinary incont. are due to a storage problem
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Stress
Urge Functional Total Mixed |
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Which type of chronic urinary incont. is due to an emptying problem
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Overflow
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Which type of chronic urinary incont. is due to a mixed storage and emptying problem?
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Reflex (spinal cord injuries)
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Stress Incontinence
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Involuntary loss of urine occurring when the intravesical pressure exceeds the maximum urethral pressure without evidence of detrusor contraction.
In the absence of detrusor contraction, bladder pressure equals or exceeds urethral resistence. |
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Urethral hypermobility
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The downward and outward displacement of the urethra
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Acute incontinence
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Recent and abrupt onset of incontinence.
Related to an acute illness or injury. Causes are reversible |
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Causes of acute incont
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Delerium
Infection Atrophic urethritis Pharmaceuticals Psychological Excess urine Restricted mobility Stool impaction |
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Alpha-adrenergic receptor antagonists
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Class of antihypertensives that cause relaxation of the smooth muscle in the bladder neck and urethra.
May cause/worsen stress incontinence in women. |
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Fecolith
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Ball of poop
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Types of chronic incontinence
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Stress
Urge Functional Total Overactive Reflex Mixed Enuresis |
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Autonomic dysrefexia
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Outlet obstruction and urine gets pushed back up into the kidneys.
Peculiar to spinal cord injury functional levels of T6 and above. HTN is greatest risk |
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Functional Incont.
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Loss of urine control in socially unacceptable situations with normal bladder and sphincter function.
Storage problem. |
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Loss of urine control in socially unacceptable situations with normal bladder and sphincter function.
Storage problem. |
What is functional incont.
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Total incont
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Continuous urine leakage.
Complete loss of ability to store urine. Storage problem. |
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Continuous urine leakage.
Complete loss of ability to store urine. Storage problem. |
What is total incont
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Autonomic dysrefexia
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Outlet obstruction and urine gets pushed back up into the kidneys.
Peculiar to spinal cord injury functional levels of T6 and above. HTN is greatest risk |
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Functional Incont.
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Loss of urine control in socially unacceptable situations with normal bladder and sphincter function.
Storage problem. |
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Loss of urine control in socially unacceptable situations with normal bladder and sphincter function.
Storage problem. |
What is functional incont.
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Total incont
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Continuous urine leakage.
Complete loss of ability to store urine. Storage problem. |
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Continuous urine leakage.
Complete loss of ability to store urine. Storage problem. |
What is total incont
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Overflow incont
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Leakage of small volumes of urine that occurs when the bladder is full and the intravesical pressures are high.
Leakage may or may not be associated with detrusor contraction. Emptying problem |
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Leakage of small volumes of urine that occurs when the bladder is full and the intravesical pressures are high.
Leakage may or may not be associated with detrusor contraction. |
What is overflow incont.
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What medications may be used to treat overflow incont.
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Alpha-adrenergic antagonists
Finasteride for BPH Bethanicol (urecholine) |
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Nocturnal enuresis
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Form of incontinence that is limited to sleeping hours in an individual who is otherwise continent.
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Form of incontinence that is limited to sleeping hours in an individual who is otherwise continent
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What is nocturnal enuresis
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