Flexible cystoscopy clinic patient led urinalysis

Nurses’ experience establishing a nurse‐led bladder cancer surveillance flexible cystoscopy service AUTHORS

Treating the hypertensive patient in a nurse-led hypertension clinic.

AIMS This manuscript presents results from 4 years experience in a nurse-led hypertension clinic. The aim of the hypertension clinic was to optimize hypertension treatment and to reduce the number of physician consultations. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients were initially examined by cardiologists. All follow-up visits were performed by nurses. They initiated and titrated antihypertensive m...

Flexible and Rigid Cystoscopy in Women

PURPOSE Previous studies have evaluated the tolerability of rigid versus flexible cystoscopy in men. Similar studies, however, have not been performed in women. We sought to determine whether office-based flexible cystoscopy was better tolerated than rigid cystoscopy in women. MATERIALS AND METHODS Following full IRB approval, women were prospectively randomized in a single-blind manner. Pati...

Out-patient flexible cystoscopy using a disposable slide-on endosheath system.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of out-patient flexible cystoscopy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-seven patients awaiting diagnostic or check cystoscopy in Leeds, UK were invited to undergo out-patient flexible cystoscopy using a CST-2000 Flexible Cystoscope (Vision Sciences; Natick, MA, USA) using the sterile single-use slide-on(trade mark) disposable endo...

Inspection of Ureteral Orifices: The Pearl of Flexible Cystoscopy

Cystoscopy is most common diagnostic investigation. The examination technique and the findings, both normal and pathological, were well described described a hundred years ago. With technological advances, there has been over-emphasis on imaging modalities for diagnostic purposes. A basic maneuver of examining the ureteral orifices is sometimes rushed through when in fact careful examination ca...