Personalized Pre-clinic Nursing Telemedicine Visit: An Efficient and Efficacious Approach for Bowel and Bladder Dysfunction in Children.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness and efficacy of a Registered Nurse (RN) led educational pre-clinic telephone call on compliance and outcomes in children with bowel and bladder dysfunction (BBD).

Methods: A retrospective chart review of a prospectively applied protocol in a single academic institution was performed for children aged 4-17 presenting with BBD. All children underwent a pre-clinic RN telemedicine visit where they were educated on pathophysiology of BBD, provided personalized urotherapy and bowel recommendations and instructed to complete pre-clinic questionnaires and voiding diaries.

Continuous antibiotic prophylaxis in isolated prenatal hydronephrosis.

Background: Prenatal hydronephrosis (PNH) is one of the most common congenital anomalies and can increase the risk of developing a urinary tract infection (UTI) in the first two years of life. Continuous antibiotic prophylaxis (CAP) has been recommended empirically to prevent UTI in children with PNH, but its use has been controversial.

Objective: We describe the incidence of UTI in children with isolated PNH of the renal pelvis without ureteral dilation.