222- GU trauma

Question 1

Injury to kidney: when is imaging indicated? When is surgical exploration indicated?

Answer 1

gross hematuria or microscopic hematuria with transient hemodynamic instability.

hemodynamic instability

Question 2

When should you surgically repair a bladder?

Answer 2

when it is intraperitoneal. Extraperitoneal can be managed with catheter

Question 3

Blunt or penetrating scrotal trauma: what is the treatment

Answer 3

surgical exploration right away

Question 4

Penile fracture: what is the treatment? what breaks?

Answer 4

prompt surgical exploration. Tunica albuguinea ruptures

Question 5

what should be done for patients with blood at the urethral meatus after pelvic trauma

Answer 5

retrograde urthrography and urinary drainage

Question 6

how to treat ureteral injury

Answer 6

they usually have worse problems so just put in nephrostomy tube and operate later

Question 7

what is bladder injury usually associated with

Answer 7

pelvic fracture