The Turkish Continence Society - Urodynamics Certification Course (theoretical) will be held during the 4th Turkish Continence Society – Functional Urology Meeting in Antalya, Turkey. The practical section of the Course will be carried out in 10 host clinics, immediately after the theoretical section. This course has been recognised by the ICS as providing training in urodynamics that conforms to ICS standards, including a training course and assessment of participants' urodynamic experience.
Registration fee will be included in the 4th Turkish Continence Society – Functional Urology Meeting attendance fee. For “single-day practical section” of the Course, the organizing committee will accommodate each participant according to the location of “closest host clinic to his/her native hospital/clinic”, so that a maximum of 2 participants will be present during each real-patient Urodynamic study.
Certificate in Urodynamics:
3.5 day seminar / basic workshop on bladder function and Urodynamics
Offers 18 contact hours of ICS recognised training
Practical instruction and hands-on training
Observation of live patient Urodynamics testing
All course attendees are invited to bring sample reports with them for review and discussion.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course the attendant will be able to:
- Review clinical, technological and environmental aspects of urodynamic laboratory
- Discuss patient preparation for multichannel urodynamic testing, including focused history and physical assessment, and taking informed consent.
- Discuss technical and clinical aspects of multichannel urodynamic study, including complex uroflowmetry, multichannel filling cystometrogram, voiding pressure flow study, pelvic muscle electromyography and urethral pressure profilometry.
- Review patient procedures for antisepsis, preparing disposable equipment for multichannel filling cystometrogram and voiding pressure flow study including zeroing transducers, setting an appropriate reference level, identifying appropriate pressure measurement and troubleshooting artifacts.
- Review procedures for preparing disposable equipment for measuring urethral pressure profilometry, including timing of evaluation, and appropriate positioning of patient.
- Discuss elements of the filling cystometrogram such as cystometric capacity, bladder wall compliance, competence of the urethral sphincter mechanism, sensations of bladder filling and detrusor response to bladder filling.
- Discuss elements of the voiding pressure flow study such as uroflowmetry pattern, detrusor contraction strength, pelvic floor muscle response to micturition and urethral resistance.
- Apply principles of pressure measurement to identification of an abdominal event, detrusor event, physiologic artifact and technological artifact.
- Apply knowledge of multichannel urodynamic testing to observation and interpretation of data produced during live urodynamic testing.
- Synthesize knowledge of results from the filling cystometrogram and voiding pressure flow study into interpretation of findings in patients experiencing failure to store urine because of the bladder, bladder outlet or a combination of these factors.