Goals of the class: to get a notion about the main symptoms and methods of pre-medical help in kidneys and urinary tract diseases; to master practical skills. Objective of the class:
► to know the basis of human physiology of the urinary system, rules of observation of urination, its frequency and character; the specificities of urine collection; the methods of the first pre-medical help in acute urine retention, urinary bladder catheterization, patient's preparation for roentgenologic examination of renal and urinary tract; particularities in taking care of the patients with kidneys and urinary tracts diseases;
► to develop the skills of observing urination, its frequency and character, taking the urine for examination, patient's preparation for roentgenologic examination of kidneys and urinary tract, urinary bladder catheterization with a soft catheter.
The subject-matter of the class:
1) hominal physiology of the urinary system;
2) the main symptoms of kidneys and urinary tract diseases, and the basis of patient's general care;
3) urine taking for laboratory examination;
4) preparation of a patient for roentgenologic examination of renal and urinary tract.
Equipment required: disinfecting liquid, sterile vaseline, tweezers, grip, rubber sterile gloves, mask, gauze, cotton tampons, towel, oilskin bedding, dry clean container for collected urine.
A section of internal medicine called nephrology is devoted to the study of renal diseases. Nowadays, nephrology is an extremely complicated and bulky section of pathology. The difference of nephrology from any other section of medicine is that, despite relative functional welfare, therapeutic possibilities of renal diseases are very limited; at the same time, within the final stage of renal insufficiency, due to the successes in technology, immunology