This preconference workshop covers basic principles of urodynamics. Using International Continence Society standards, participants will learn to identify and interpret components of urodynamic testing including: detrusor (bladder) filling, compliance, capacity, sensation and stability, and bladder emptying (electromyography/sphincteric function).
Contact hours available until 3/16/2016.
Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation.
Faculty, Planners and Authors Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Shelly King, MSN, BSN, RN, CPNP
Advisory Board: Hollister
Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.
Accreditation Statement:
Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
SUNA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number, CEP 5556.
Objectives: - List the perspectives that dominate data generation and interpretation, mechanical, physiologic and psychosocial.
- Outline the elements of a urodynamics study.
- Summarize techniques of urodynamics interpretation.
- Define components of a Cystometrogram (CMG).
- Outline the procedure including zeroing, data points and interpretation of the data.