This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of this field, and will serve as a valuable practical resource for clinicians with an interest in conducting urodynamics. The book reviews new data about the indications, conduct and interpretation of various aspects of urodynamic testing. With an emphasis on clinical urodynamics, it is arranged into sections that correspond with the basic elements of urodynamic testing; noninvasive urodynamics (uroflow and post void residual), cystometrogram, storage studies (leak point pressures, stability, compliance and capacity) and voiding phases (pressure flow study). Other testing modalities that are discussed include EMG testing, fluoroscopy, and provocative maneuvers.

Practical Urodynamics for the Clinician will serve as a very useful and practical resource for physicians and researchers dealing with, and interested in, this complex physiologic testing tool. It will provide a concise yet comprehensive summary of the field that will help guide the selection of patients for the study, preparation of the patient, the conduct of the study and finally the interpretation of the urodynamics evaluation.

1 The Basic Science behind Practical/Clinical Urodynamic Analysis

Matthew Fraser

2  Urodynamics Equipment--What the Clinician Needs to Know to Set Up the Lab

Andrew P. Windsperger and Brian J. Flynn

3 The Clinical Evaluation of the Patient Who Requires Urodynamics

Maria Voznesensky and R. Clay McDonough

4. Noninvasive Urodynamics

Oscar Alfonso Storme and Kurt Anthony McCammon

5  The Cystometrogram

Ryan L. Steinberg and Karl J. Kreder

6  The Pressure Flow Study

Kirk M. Anderson and David A. Hadley

7  The EMG

Kristy M. Borawski

8  The Use of Fluoroscopy

Tom Feng and Karyn S. Eilber

9  Putting it All Together: Practical Advice on Clinical Urodynamics

Julian Wan and John Stoffel

10  Nomograms

David Jiang and Jennifer T. Anger

11 Ambulatory Urodynamics

Paholo G. Barboglio Romo and E. Ann Gormley

12 Bedside Urodynamics

Andrew C. Peterson

13 Practical Urodynamics in Children

Sherry S. Ross and John S. Wiener