Competency information

Details

Set up equipment for video urodynamics, UPP and ambulatory urodynamics ready for use.

Considerations

  • Range of equipment used and principles of measurement.
  • Recognition of the errors or potential risks of using defective equipment in clinical practice and the implications of use.
  • Identification of common faults and remedial action.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Plan and perform, under appropriate practitioner direction, video urodynamics tests to identify vesico-ureteric reflux, trabeculation, diverticulae and different types of incontinence.
# 2 Outcome Plan and perform ambulatory urodynamic monitoring to investigate patients referred for a range of situations, including indeterminate cystometry or unreproduced symptoms.
# 3 Outcome Plan and perform urethral pressure profile testing, maintaining awareness of the test’s limitations.