Urethra

Approximately seventy percent of people experience urinary incontinence (UI) as a result of being admitted into the hospital. Urinary incontinence is more prevalent in elderly people, and predominantly affects women more often than men. Urinary incontinence can be is described as the uncontrolled loss of urine, and can be broken down into five different types. The first type of urinary incontinence is stress incontinence, which occurs when there is involuntary emission of urine due to coughing, sneezing

“Continuous quality improvement is a philosophy that encourages a healthcare team to continuously ask: ‘How are we doing?’ and ‘Can we do it better?’ More specifically, can we do it more efficiently? Can we be more effective? Can we do it faster? Can we do it in a more timely way? Continuous improvement begins with a culture of improvement for the patient, the practice, and the population in general” (NLC, 2013). Having a continuous quality improvement initiative is a to construct a design to

My organ is the urinary bladder for the organ paper. The function of the urinary bladder is a storage container temporarily for urine, until it is expelled through the urethra. The elasticity of the bladder is unmatched as it has the ability to increase in size to make room for increases in urine volume from 600 to 800 ml at maximum capacity. The reason for this elasticity is due to the visceral muscles and transitional epithelium located in the walls of this hollow organ, that allows this distensibility

biological system that removes excess, unnecessary materials from an organism, so as to help maintain homeostasis within the organism and prevent damage to the body’ (http. 2). The excretory system is composed of two kidneys, two ureters, a bladder and a urethra. What is the excretory system composed of? What is the purpose of the excretory system?  Cleans and filters blood by removal of waste

Discussion: Clinical microscopy, also known as urinalysis, is the analysis of urine by physical, chemical, and microscopically means to test for the presence of disease, drugs and other abnormalities in a urine sample. Abnormal results of a urinalysis often require more testing and evaluation to uncover the source of the problem. (Echeverry, 2010). Urinalysis can provide that reflects a patient’s general medical health and also a clinical aspect of the patient. Unlike all other bodily fluids, urine

The indwelling urinary catheter can be inserted for a long period with frequent changes between 4-6 weeks (Taylor, Lillis, LeMone, & Lynn, 2011). However, the Foley can also be a potential source for UTI and bacteriuria (Taylor et al., 2011). The necessity of reducing the patient’s period of time on a Foley and helping him or her to quickly regain normal bladder function is significant. Performing bladder training through clamping the urinary catheter is reported to decrease the frequency of urinary

Urinary incontinence is the involuntary leakage of urine, which means a person urinates when they do not want to. (82 Testa) Urinary continence occurs when control over the urinary sphincter is either lost or weakened. According to the Canadian Continence Foundation, incontinence affects over 3.3 million Canadians including men and women of all ages. (http://www.canadiancontinence.ca/EN/what-is-urinary-incontinence.php) Urinary incontinence is a much more prevalent in the elderly population due to

The answer to that question is Yes! It is easy to mistake peeing outside the box with territorial marking. But they have quite different meanings to your cat. Until you know the difference and can determine whether your cat is urinating or marking, it will be all but impossible to get to the root of the problem. As you know, before any of us can solve a problem, we need to know what is causing the situation. A key factor that many cat owners over look is that there's a difference between your cat

Our searches of databases produced a total of 704 references and we screened 670 title and abstract records after removal of duplicates.We accessed 18 full-text papers for further full text screening to determine eligibility. We found 1 ongoing study (Badlani 2009) and four studies (Hajebrahimi 2011; Lee 2011; Xu 2007; Yamanishi 2004) fulfilled the inclusion criteria. A flow diagram of the process of selecting studies is presented in Figure 1. Included studies   A total of 322 females with VD in

What if you were told that you were at high risk for cancer? Bloom Syndrome is a rare inherited disease that causes high risk for cancer, and is recognizable by sun-sensitive red skin, and distinct facial features. Some of those features include defined ears, short stature, small head circumference, underweight, and high pitched voice. This disorder is caused by a mutation on the BLM gene. The BLM gene comes from the chromosomal locus, or location, 15q26.1 which is on chromosome 15. With this disorder