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LABORIE Urocap™ IV Owner’s Manual UC4-UM01
APPENDIX I.
GLOSSARY
TERMS USED IN URODYNAMIC TESTING
calibration: “checking calibrations” -verifying the accuracy of measurements.
recalibrate: a procedure to correct or improve the accuracy of measurements.
capacity: notation of the sensation at which the patient feels he/she can no longer delay voiding. This is the point
at which permission to void is given.
Standard annotation in Event Menu, often placed on the Control Panel
enuresis: involuntary loss of urine, usually subcategorized as nocturnal enuresis meaning involuntary loss of urine
during sleep.
first desire to void: during Urodynamics, the feeling that would lead the patient to pass urine at the next
convenient moment, but voiding can be delayed.
Standard annotation in Event Menu, often on Control Panel
frequency: the complaint of voiding too often by day.
hesitancy: difficulty initiating voiding.
incontinence: the involuntary loss of urine. May be further defined as: stress incontinence, urge incontinence,
mixed (both stress and urge) incontinence, nocturnal enuresis, and situational incontinence.
International Continence Society: (ICS) “The primary interest of the International Continence Society is to study
storage and voiding function of the lower urinary tract, its diagnosis and the management of lower urinary tract
dysfunction, and to encourage research into pathophysiology, diagnostic techniques and treatment.” This group
sets standards for Urodynamic testing that all LABORIE training follows.
lower urinary tract symptoms: (LUTS) these may include frequency, urgency, incontinence, nocturia, recurrent
urinary tract infections, and many others.
neuropathic detrusor overactivity: (formerly hyperreflexia) detrusor overactivity where there is a relevant
neurological condition.
nocturia: complaint that patient has to wake one or more times to void.
nocturnal enuresis: the complaint of loss of urine during sleep.
permission to void: annotation placed at time of reported sensation of bladder capacity, recommended by ICS
to document when patient was told to allow voiding. This helps differentiate between contractions that are
involuntary, and contractions that are voluntarily generated to initiate voiding.
sensation: in Urodynamics, the reported sensations during testing such as first sensation, first desire, strong
desire, and sense of reaching bladder capacity.
These are recorded as annotations, in the Event Menu and usually on the Control panel.
stress urinary incontinence: (SUI) the symptom of a loss of urine associated with exertion, often with cough or
sneeze. This is considered a complaint unless proven urodynamically, when it then is known as Urodynamic stress
incontinence (formerly genuine stress incontinence).
strong desire to void: described as the persistent desire to void without fear of leakage.
uninhibited: acting without conscious inhibition – often used to describe a bladder contraction which the patient
is unable to suppress.
urethra: the tube leading from the bladder to the outside of the body.
