Individually tailored ultrasound-assisted prompted voiding for institutionalized older adults with urinary incontinence.

Objectives: To assess individually tailored ultrasound-assisted prompted voiding as a means of managing urinary incontinence in hospitalized elderly patients.

Methods: A total of 88 incontinent elderly individuals who were inpatients in general hospitals were included. Each individual's mean bladder volume before starting to void (voided urine volume plus residual urine volume) was regarded as the optimal bladder volume.

[Diaper cystitis as recurrent cause of urinary infections in geriatric community hospital].

Aim: Chronic cystitis in diaper-dependent elderly patients can be a causative pathology for recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in community hospitals.

Methods: We analyzed hospital infections to determine causative organisms from January 2007 to December 2009 in patients in a long-term care hospital. The reading causes of hospital infections were UTIs (30.

[Long-term usefulness and safety of the contemporary balloon catheter].

Objective: To evaluate usefulness and safety of an indwelling contemporary balloon catheter, we compared complication rates among five methods of urinary tract management.

Patients And Methods: History of febrile episode, bladder stones, pyuria and the miscellaneous urinary tract problems of 114 patients were retrospectively reviewed. The rates of complications were compared among five types of urinary tract management as clean intermittent catheterization dry (not incontinent) (CIC-dry: n = 33), clean intermittent catheterization with incontinence (CIC-wet: n = 16), clean intermittent catheterization with a contemporary balloon catheter indwelling at night (Contemporary catheter: n = 20), a suprapubic cystostomy catheter indwelling (Cystostomy: n = 22) and permanent urethral balloon catheter indwelling (Urethral catheter: n = 24).