Bariatric patients often encounter challenging physical environments and sometimes encounter negative attitudes from health professionals when seeking care. Most facilities have the basic equipment needed to care for these patients. Using ceiling lifts or limb slings to facilitate repositioning or transfer has benefits for patients and staff. Environment, equipment, education, and resources are...

Transvaginal mid-urethral slings have become the most preferred surgical treatment option for female stress urinary incontinence. However, various complications have been reported for these operations occurring especially during penetration of the retropubic space. It can negatively affect patient's quality of life. Early treatment increases the chance of complete normalization of the functions...

TO THE EDITOR: The advent of midurethral slings (MUSs) has revolutionised surgery for female stress urinary incontinence. An MUS is a narrow, synthetic (usually polypropylene) tape that is surgically placed beneath the middle part of the urethra, traversing either the retropubic space or the obturator foramina to provide dynamic support in order to restore urinary continence. Medicare Australia...

OBJECTIVE To study changes in mid-urethral function with dynamic MRI in stress urinary incontinent women undergoing either tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) or TVT-obturator sling operations. DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING University hospital. SAMPLE Forty-two parous women with stress urinary incontinence recruited to dynamic magnetic resonance imaging before and after mid-ureth...

OBJECTIVES To examine and describe types of injuries associated with adult-worn child carriers and illustrate the need for careful use of these products by parents. METHODS A literature search for the terms infant carriers, backpack carriers, infant slings, baby carriers, and baby slings was conducted. Information was also obtained and tabulated from the three Consumer Product Safety Commissi...

Stress urinary incontinence is a major problem at the field of female urology and urogynecology. Symptomatically, this is a losing of the urine on physical efforts, coughing or sneezing. Incompetency of the urethral closing mechanisms are causing urine loss. Mid-urethral synthetic slings are the gold standard of the treatment of the stress urinary incontinence. At the same time, different ureth...