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Rodger wireless bedwetting alarm system NOW available to rent or buy

5 May 2021 | Research & Development
The Rodger wireless bedwetting alarm has 8 different alarm tones and a volume control. It’s available with a vibrating pad for children that are deep sleepers. We offer the alarm system to...

Still Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) in urology: meeting the challenges presented by COVID-19

3 May 2022 |
Back in 2019, Simon Harrison – the then sole national lead for the urology workstream in the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme – wrote an article for Urology News on the GIRFT national report and how its recommendations...

Comparing NSAIDs with antibiotics in the treatment of uncomplicated UTIs in women

1 March 2016 | | Functional Urology
Uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common presentation in primary care, however there is increasing concern regarding antibiotic use and resistant organisms. In this double-blind randomised German study, the authors seek to establish if ibuprofen 400mg three times a...
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Coronaviruses and kidney injury

6 November 2020 | | Trauma and Emergency Urology, COVID-19 - Urology News | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS virus, acute kidney injury
This is a topical review of the effects of coronaviruses on the kidney and includes a description of the mechanisms of kidney damage by SARS, MERS and COVID-19. The authors quote two previous reports which estimate the incidence of acute...

Read all about it May/Jun 2021

5 May 2021 | | Urologic Oncology, Functional Urology
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...

Read all about it Jul/Aug 2021

1 July 2021 | | Paediatric Urology, Urologic Oncology
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...
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Is robotic pyeloplasty in the under-ones as good as open repair?

2 March 2022 | | Paediatric Urology | hydronephrosis, kidney, pediatrics, robotic surgical procedures, ureteral obstruction
Pelviureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) is a common cause of paediatric hydronephrosis. Indications for intervention include reduced renal function (<40%), symptoms (urinary tract infection or pain) and increasing dilatation. Although the Anderson-Hynes open pyeloplasty (OP) has long been the gold standard...

The High Operation

1 September 2014 | | Endourology and Stones, Technological Developments
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the BAUS Virtual museum of the History of Urology which is part of the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last three articles I...

An interview with ChatGPT (3.5)

4 May 2023 | | Technological Developments
For this month’s Digital Review I explored the hype surrounding Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) from Open AI. The free version is still available at https://chat.openai.com/chat (ChatGPT 3.5) and was used in this article. At the time of writing this...

Demanding cases or nightmares in endourology? Nov/Dec 2017

1 November 2017 | | Endourology and Stones
Case 1 A 78-year-old male was transferred from a referring hospital. He had a cystectomy and ileal conduit performed 15 years previously and had recently been admitted with a clinical diagnosis of an infected obstructed kidney. The referring hospital had...

A guide for the assessment and management of post-obstructive diuresis

1 March 2015 | | Functional Urology
Acute urinary retention is a common condition encountered in the emergency situation and is initially managed by urethral catheterisation. This is often performed by nursing staff or junior doctors. Post-obstructive diuresis (POD) is a specific entity which may occur post...

Prostates at the OK Corral

11 July 2023 | | Technological Developments
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In this article, we are looking at an American urologist whose story was,...