Search

You searched for "outpatient"

598 results found
BMJ cover with Editor's Choice stamp

Beware of the ambiguous testicular lump

1 September 2019 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology
In busy day-to-day practice, we are often faced with puzzling situations. A useful mnemonic is 4-T: torsion, trauma, tumour and tuberculosis (infections). This case review in the BMJ is about a 34-year-old man presenting to A&E with left testicular pain...

Aqua Medical: LATP Prostate Biopsy with Perino-Flex

17 January 2025
Join renowned urologist Mr Ahmed Ali & Colleagues for an intensive hands-on LATP (Local Anesthesia Transperineal) Training Course featuring the groundbreaking Pernio-Flex, the world’s first prostate biopsy guide with angulation. Designed for urology professionals eager to enhance biopsy precision and patient comfort, this course covers every aspect of LATP technique using Pernio-Flex’s innovative design, which enables precise angulation for improved accuracy and accessibility

Action Bladder Cancer UK: Living with bladder cancer: your psychological wellness. (Patient webinar)

31 March 2025
A free online webinar by Action Bladder Cancer UK for patients living with bladder cancer. This talk look at the emotional and psychological impact of having a diagnosis of bladder cancer. We will look at living positively with cancer and give practical strategies for managing patient worries and concerns. The session will focus on how patients can optimise their emotional wellbeing.

BUI (Bristol Urological Institute) Consolidation Urodynamics Course

9 December 2024
This is a one day course and will be run face to face at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. The course reviews urodynamics (UDS) quality and trace interpretation based on patient cases, and gives updates on urodynamic practice. Intended delegates: doctors, nurses and/or technicians who have previously attended a Bristol or other ‘approved’ urodynamic course, and who would like a refresher course. Delegates will be encouraged to submit their own urodynamic traces for discussion.

Black men are more at risk from prostate cancer, but we won’t let it stay that way – an update from Prostate Cancer Research

4 May 2023 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
- CHARITY FOCUS - Focusing on all of disease characteristics, societal factors, and better communication gives us real potential to fix a disparity that has persisted for too long. When it comes to health inequity, the numbers are stark. Black...

A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Health

1 March 2015 | | URO - Infection, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
The authors, a combination of family physician and physiotherapist, work well together in this easy to read text, to provide a useful and patient-orientated guide to pelvic health. Many patients are not served well by the derisory amount of time...

Bladder cancer

5 November 2019 | URO - Urologic Oncology
Case 1 A 78-year-old female presents with a week history of painless haematuria. She’s a smoker and used to work in the textiles industry. She underwent a flexible cystoscopy. What does this image show? What are the two-week wait National...

Consent: your obligations in the modern, post-Montgomery era

1 March 2017 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology, URO - Technology
There has been so much recent discussion and so much emphasis placed on the fundamental right that we all have to determine what is or is not done to us, the right to self-determination, that it would be either a...

Shared decision-making – minimising the mismatch

3 May 2024 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
In Western countries, we are spoilt for choice in almost every aspect of our lives, but does that reflect also in healthcare? While we have taken some big strides towards shared decision-making with our patients, the age-old physician dominance remains...

New techniques in UTI diagnosis

12 September 2023 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common reason for seeking medical care in both primary and secondary settings. Half of women will have at least one episode of cystitis in their lifetime, and a third of them will have experienced...

Recent developments in bladder cancer

1 September 2018 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
There have been some exciting developments in bladder cancer over the last few years. Immunotherapy has prolonged survival in a proportion of patients with metastatic disease, with sustained efficacy in some. Advances in genetic analysis and molecular subtyping make personalised...

New drug hope for prostate cancer patients

16 January 2025
• Hormone therapy is used to slow the progression of advanced prostate cancer, but cancers often develop resistance and continue to grow.• Research reveals that patients with higher levels of heat shock proteins have worse outcomes.• Targeting these proteins with...