Care of the Patient With Neurogenic Bladder

This book provides an outline for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient with neurogenic bladder dysfunction. The patients about whose care the text seems intended are generally those with debilitating disease. Hence, the text will be of most value to those working in a spinal cord injury unit or perhaps in a spina bifida clinic. Chapters are included that amplify the team approach to the total care of the disabled patient. Unfortunately, the actual evaluation of the neurogenic bladder is fragmented somewhat in the text. For example, in the second chapter, sophisticated urodynamic studies are described. To understand the role and technique of these tests at this point, the reader would have to be familiar with them. Then, in a subsequent chapter, cystometry is described in a simplistic manner, and the equipment that is illustrated includes a water manometer and Lewis cystometer.

Needless to say, treatment should be based