Week 4 Lecture Flashcards
A continent urinary diversion is a….
After bladder removal .
New bladder is made from your bowel.
Surgeon makes a new opening called a stoma on your tummy
(cystectomy)
Bladder removal
cutaneous ureterostomy
Detaching of the ureters by surgery
Ureters are brought to a Stoma in your tummy
Ureters
the duct by which urine passes from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca
Enuresis
Bed wetting
Hematuria
Blood in urine
Incontinence-associated dermatitis
skin bacteria convert urea (a product of protein metabolism found in urine) to ammonia which damages the skin
Indwelling Urinary Catheter (IDC):
A catheter which is inserted into the bladder, via the urethra and remains in situ to drain urine
Intermittent urethral catheter
Inserted several times a day, just long enough to drain the bladder
micturition
Act of urinating
Mixed incontinence
Activities such as coughing, sneezing, laughing, exercise, and even standing up can cause leakage in women withstress incontinence.
It’s common for women to experience symptoms of both urge and stress incontinence.
This condition is called mixed incontinence.
rapid deterioration in the kidney function due to toxic effect of medications and chemicals
Nephrotoxic
Overflow incontinence
urge to urinate but can release only a small amount
Postvoid residual
Amount of urine left in bladder after micturition
Less than 50mL is norm
Specific gravity
measure of the density of a substance in comparison to the density of water.
Stress incontinence happens
physical movement or activity — such as coughing, laughing, sneezing, running or heavy lifting — puts pressure (stress) on your bladder, causing you to leak urine.
Colostomy
surgical operation in which a piece of the colon is diverted to an artificial opening in the abdominal wall so as to bypass a damaged part of the colon.
Endoscopy
An endoscopy is a procedure used in medicine to look inside the body. The endoscopy procedure uses an endoscope to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body
Fissure
small tear in the lining of the anus.
Flatus
Gas generated by the bowel or stomach
Hemmroids aka piles
Swollen and inflamed veins in the rectum and anus that cause discomfort and bleeding.
Ileostomy
A stoma constructed by bringing the end or loop of small intestine out onto the surface of the skin, or the surgical procedure which creates this opening.
Intestinal waste passes out of the ileostomy and is collected in an external ostomy system which is placed next to the opening.
An ostomy….
is surgery to create an opening (stoma) from an area inside the body to the outside.
Paralytic ileus
condition where the motor activity of the bowel is impaired, usually without the presence of a physical obstruction
Dangerous
