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BAUS 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting

4 May 2023 |
BAUS June 2022 was certainly noteworthy for me personally, as Tim O’Brien passed on the baton of Presidency. It was also a very special meeting for everyone who participated. The event felt so refreshing after two years of COVID and...

Remote working: what can health professionals learn from business?

5 February 2021 | | COVID-19 - Urology News
Remote working has been widely used in business for many years but before COVID-19, this was not the case within healthcare settings. This article seeks to review the advantages, challenges and solutions which users of remote working in business have...

The Urology Foundation

1 July 2015 |
The Urology Foundation (TUF) is the only charity in the United Kingdom that raises money for research into all types of urological disease. Our ultimate aim as a charity is to discover the causes of urology cancers and conditions, to...

Factors associated with post ureteroscopy urosepsis

1 January 2017 | | Endourology and Stones
The authors investigate which factors were most likely to increase the risk of postoperative urosepsis within 28 days of ureteroscopy (URS) and laser stone fragmentation by analysing the 34 of 562 patients who developed this complication. Stone size, same session...

Tackling stones in children: is it difficult to crack on?

1 July 2015 | | Endourology and Stones | Percutaneous nephrolithotomy, Surgical management pediatric stones, Ureteroscopy
The incidence of stone disease in the paediatric population has been increasing worldwide, particularly for the adolescent age group (12–17 years of age). In this article the authors discussed the evolutions of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and ureteroscopy (URS) in children....

OAEE UPDATE - Urgent Call for Surgical Supplies in Ukraine

24 March 2022
UK professionals have called for aid in sending surgical equipment to Ukraine during Russian invasion.

Read all about it Jul/Aug 2020

7 July 2020 | COVID-19 - Urology News, Infection
Read all about it... It can be awkward when a patient asks you about a report in their favourite tabloid detailing an amazing research breakthrough or a ‘cutting-edge’ new treatment / test and you don’t know what they are talking...

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...

How the COVID pandemic has shaped ongoing service delivery at ERIC, The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity

6 January 2023 | COVID-19 - Urology News
- CHARITY FOCUS - Like many organisations and charities, COVID-19 generated a rapid period of adaptation and diversification for ERIC, The Children’s Bowel and Bladder Charity. Their Head of Communications, Alina Lynden, explains what this meant for the organisation and...

Intravesical glycosaminoglycan analogue instillations for recurrent cystitis

1 May 2017 | | Infection, Functional Urology
Introduction The symptoms of recurrent cystitis can be triggered by inflammatory or infective causes. Bladder pain syndrome (BPS) and bacterial recurrent lower urinary tract infection can both present with symptoms of recurrent cystitis and cause significant morbidity in affected individuals....

The master’s degree in urology – a personal perspective

1 November 2015 |
I have recently completed a master’s degree in urology, based jointly with the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. I began the course three months after commencing ST3 in urology. I had begun exploring the...

A review of the diagnosis and management of urethral caruncles

1 November 2017 | | Functional Urology
Introduction The innocuous urethral caruncle is the most common benign urethral lesion in females. It can pose a significant challenge to urologists due to the plethora of differentials and poor evidence surrounding management. In 1926, Ferrier eloquently described the macroscopic...