AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore the effects of introducing a telemonitoring and care planning system for urinary continence assessment in a nursing home and adherence by care staff to urinary continence care plans. BACKGROUND Only a few studies have explored the effect of introducing telemonitoring system on urinary continence care, none for older people in nursing homes. DESIGN Pre- and pos...

Surgeons have always used their cognitive intuition for the execution of skilled tasks and real-time perception of intra-operative outcomes. We attempted to measure the overall accuracy of intra-operative surgeon perception on the functional outcome of early continence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). A single experienced surgeon (D.I.L.) used a scoring sheet to prospectively ...

PURPOSE To evaluate continence after radical prostatectomy in prostate cancer patients, in whom a new method of the bladder neck reconstruction (BNR) using deep dorsal stitch was implemented (deep single stitch through all bladder layers directly dorsal to the bladder opening after ″ tennis racket″ reconstruction) and to provide justification for its use by means of anatomical study in cadavers...

Background Urinary continence and erectile function (EF) are best preserved when meticulous dissection of prostate and nerve sparing technique are used during radical prostatectomy (RP). However, extent of lymph node dissection (LND) may also adversely affect functional results. Objective To determine whether performing a super-extended LND (seLND) has a significant effect on recovery of urin...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the effects of combined bladder neck preservation and posterior reconstruction techniques on early and long term urinary continence in patients treated by robotic assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). METHODS Two-hundred ninety-two patients who previously underwent radical prostatectomy were retrospectively selected for a case-control study, excluding those with anasto...

The purpose of this phenomenologic case study was to disclose the lived experiences of a woman survivor of invasive bladder cancer who underwent reconstructive surgery resulting in re-established urinary continence. Data revealed the chronic nature of managing reestablished urinary continence, the uncertainty of long-term survival, and the complexity of the sudden loss of urinary continence.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor on urinary continence recovery after bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. METHODS We analyzed data of 393 open bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomies carried out between 2005 and 2010. Patients who recovered urinary continence within the first month after catheter removal (n = 52) were excluded. This...

We assessed the management of urinary incontinence amongst older people in residential and nursing homes and examined strategies for continence care in the homes. A random sample of local authority and private residential and nursing homes was drawn from an earlier census of long-term care. Strategies for continence care, the standard of care provided and the need for more help were determined ...

CONTEXT Membranous urethral length (MUL) measured prior to radical prostatectomy (RP) has been identified as a factor that is associated with the recovery of continence following surgery. OBJECTIVE To undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis of all studies reporting the effect of MUL on the recovery of continence following RP. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A comprehensive search of PubMed, EM...