URINARY ELIMINATION

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Upper urinary tract

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▪ Kidneys, ureters

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Lower urinary tract

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▪ Bladder, urethra, pelvic floor

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o Base of bladder

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Trigone

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• Located behind peritoneal cavity on either side of the spine

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KIDNEYS

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▪ tuft of capillaries surrounded by
Bowman’s capsule

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Glomerulus

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▪ provides active tension designed to close
the urethral lumen

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Internal sphincter under involuntary control

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Once the urine is formed in the kidneys, it moves through
the collecting ducts into the calyces of the renal pelvis and
from there into the

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URETERS

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• Hollow organ serving as reservoir for urine and as the organ
  of excretion.

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BLADDER

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• Extends from bladder to meatus (opening)
• serves only as a passageway for the elimination of urine

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URETHRA

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allows the bladder to expand as
it fills with urine, and to contract
to release urine to the outside of
the body during voiding

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▪ Detrusor muscle

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▪ allowing the individual to choose when
urine is eliminated

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o External sphincter under voluntary control

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o process of emptying the urinary bladder

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• Micturition, Voiding, Urination

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URINATION

transmit impulses to spinal cord voiding
reflex center

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Stretch receptors

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▪ Involuntary passing of urine when control
should be establishes

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o Enuresis

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▪ bed-wetting, is the involuntary passing of
urine during sleep

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o Nocturnal enuresis

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(calculus)

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Urinary stone

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o production of abnormally large amounts of urine
by the kidneys, often several liters more than the
client’s usual daily output.

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Polyuria (Diuresis)

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o Excessive fluid intake

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polydipsia

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o Low urinary output
o Less than 500 mL/day or 30 mL/hour
o may occur because of abnormal fluid losses or a
lack of fluid intake, it often indicates impaired
blood flow to the kidneys or impending renal failure

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Oliguria

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o Lack of urine production

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• Anuria

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technique by which fluids and molecules
pass through a semi-permeable
membrane according to the rules of
osmosis

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o Renal dialysis

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• client’s blood flows
  through vascular catheters, passes by
  the dialysis solution in an external
  machine, and then returns to the client

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Hemodialysis

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• the dialysis solution
  is instilled into the abdominal cavity
  through a catheter, allowed to rest there
  while the fluid and molecules exchange,
  and then removed through the catheter.

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Peritoneal dialysis

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o Voiding that is painful, difficult

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Dysuria

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o involuntary leakage of urine or loss of bladder
control, is a health symptom, not a disease.
o Only normal in infants

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Urinary incontinence (UI)

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o Involuntary urination in children beyond age of
voluntary bladder control

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• Enuresis

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o occurs because of weak pelvic floor muscles
and/or urethral hypermobility, causing urine
leakage with such activities as laughing, coughing,
sneezing, or any body movement that puts
pressure on the bladder.
o Urethral hypermobility

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STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE (SUI)

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o urgent need to void and the inability to stop
micturition (passage of urine).
o Urge incontinence is a major symptom of an
overactive bladder

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URGENCY URINARY INCONTINENCE

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o diagnosed when symptoms of both stress UI and
urgency UI are present

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MIXED URINARY INCONTINENCE

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o “continuous involuntary leakage or dribbling of
urine that occurs with incomplete bladder
emptying”

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OVERFLOW URINARY INCONTINENCE

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o emptying of the bladder is impaired, urine
accumulates and the bladder becomes
overdistended

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Urinary retention

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If these actions are unsuccessful, the primary care provider
may order a cholinergic drug such as bethanechol chloride
______to stimulate bladder contraction and facilitate
voiding.

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(Urecholine)

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a flaccid bladder

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(weak, soft, and lax
bladder muscles)

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▪ may use manual pressure on the bladder
to promote bladder emptying

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Credé maneuver

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▪ double-lumen catheter
▪ outside end of this two-way retention
catheter is bifurcated; that is, it has two
openings, one to drain the urine, the
other to inflate the balloon

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o Retention, or Foley, catheter

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single-lumen tube with a small eye or
opening about 1.25 cm (0.5 in.) from the
insertion tip

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Straight catheter

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▪ which has a curved tip
▪ This is sometimes used for men who
have a hypertrophied prostate, because
its tip is somewhat stiffer than a regular
catheter and thus it can be better
controlled during insertion, and passage
is often less traumatic.

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Indwelling catheter Coudé (elbowed) catheter

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▪ require continuous or intermittent bladder
irrigation

▪ has a third lumen through which sterile
irrigating fluid can flow into the bladder.
The fluid then exits the bladder through
the drainage lumen, along with the urine

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Three-way Foley catheter

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Urinary diversion

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o surgical rerouting of urine from the kidneys to a
site other than the bladder.
o Clients with bladder cancer often need a urinary
diversion when the bladder must be removed or
bypassed.

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diverts urine from the
kidney via a catheter inserted into the
renal pelvis to a nephrostomy tube and
bag

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Nephrostomy;

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one or both of the ureters
may be brought directly to the side of the
abdomen to form small stomas

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Ureterostomy;

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(cystectomy)

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removal of the bladder

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(continent ileal bladder conduit)
▪ also uses a portion of the ileum to form a
reservoir for urine

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Kock pouch

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formed when the bladder
is left intact but voiding through the
urethra is not possible (e.g., due to an
obstruction or a neurogenic bladder).

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Vesicostomy;

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most common incontinent
urinary diversion

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Ileal conduit;