Best Practice archive for July 2023

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The importance of active investigation and follow-up in bladder injury

11 July 2023 | | Trauma and Emergency Urology

Bladder injury (BI) is uncommon, and patients are typically managed by large multidisciplinary teams, dealing concomitantly with other injuries or diagnoses. BI can be categorised by cause (traumatic vs. iatrogenic) or anatomical location (intraperitoneal vs. extraperitoneal), requiring differing approaches to...

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Ambulatory local anaesthetic implantation of percutaneous sacral nerve stimulators

11 July 2023 | | Functional Urology

Background The current treatment paradigm for detrusor overactivity (DO) and dysfunctional voiding (DV) includes conservative measures, pharmacotherapy, intravesical onabotulinum toxin A (Botox®), sacral nerve modulation (SNM / SNS) and urinary diversion as a last resort [1]. Incidence of DO is...