Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Stress Incontinence, Geriatrics, Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
11 Mar 2014
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Giants of geriatrics: clusters of chronic diseases with diminished possibility for recovery, afflicting most very old people. The involuntary and inappropriate passage of urine and/or feces: intellectual impairment. Brain failure (malfunction of all or nearly all of the brain) They can interconnect (immobility instability: normal bladder function, normal average amount of urine secreted 100 ml per hour, sensations of bladder states: Fullness 300ml, 3 hours after fluid intake; easily suppressed. Discomfort of full bladder 600 ml, after 6 hours. Desperation 750 ml or more; irresistible desire to urinate, leaking starts. Leakage of urine during exercise, laughing, coughing, sneezing, or lifting. Inability to hold urine until you get to a toilet. Smell of urine on clothes or in the house: prevalence. 1 in 3 persons over the age of 60. Twice as common in women than in men (by giving birth and pregnant changes in our pelvic floor cause it more for women)
