PHOENIX, AZ USA (UroToday.com) - This group presented results of a retrospective study of patients (n= 116 patients, 51 men, 65 women), who wore incontinence absorbent pads on a daily basis, to determine if pad usage reflected the severity of UI.
Patients were asked to complete a twenty-four hour pad test. They were told to use their usual pads, to change them per usual daily routine and place each in a separate plastic bag the day before the scheduled appointment. Pads were weighed and total urine loss was calculated (wet pad weight minus weight of dry pad).
These authors found weak correlation between the number of pads used and severity of UI. The authors do not define how severity of incontinence was measured (e,g, UDS). Conclusion was that pad counts should not be used as an objective measure of incontinence severity.
Presented by Mazyar Ghanaat, Johnson Tsui, Jerry Blaivas, Milan Shah, Jeffrey Weiss, Rajveer Purohit, and Matthew Rutman at the Society for Urodynamics and Female Urology (SUFU) 2011 Winter Meeting - March 1 - 5, 2011 - Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Reported for UroToday by Diane K. Newman, RNC, MSN, CRNP, FAAN and Continence Nurse Practitioner Specialist - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
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