Voiding Dysfunction Flashcards
occurs when a woman losses the ability to empty her bladder effortlessly and completely within a limited time frame (usually within 60seconds or less)
Voiding dysfunction
can be identified on a uroflow when the voiding time is prolonged, the flow pattern is interrupted or the maximum flow rate is diminished
Voiding dysfunction
Desire to void during bladder filling occurs earlier or is more persistent from that previous experienced (differs from urgency by the fact that micturition can be postponed despite the desire to void)
Increased bladder sensation
Definite desire to void occurs later than that previously experienced, despite an awareness that the bladder is filling
Reduced bladder sensation
Absence of the sensation of bladder filling and a definite desire to void
Absent bladder sensation
Delay in initiating micturition
Hesitancy
Need to make intensive effort to initiate, maintain, or improve urinary stream
Straining to void
Urinary stream perceived as slower compared to previous performance or in comparison with others
Slow stream
Urine flow that stops and starts on one or more occasions during voiding
Intermittency
Bladder does not feel empty after micturition
Feeling of incomplete bladder emptying
Involuntary passage of urine following the completion of micturition
Post micturition leakage
Urine passage is a spray or split rather than a single discrete stream
Spraying of urinary stream
Requiring specific positions to be able to micturate spontaneously or to improve bladder emptying, leaning forward or backward on the toilet seat or voiding in a semi-standing position
Position-dependent micturition
Inability to pass urine despite persistent effort
Urinary retention
sudden and often painful inability to void despite the sensation of a full bladder and desire to urinate
Acute urinary retention
