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cerebral cortex - correct answers ✅✅Decision maker, in control
incontinence - correct answers ✅✅Any disruption in the
cerebrocortical function can cause or contribute to....
CVA - correct answers ✅✅common cause of cerebrocortical
dysfunction causing incontinence
Dementia - correct answers ✅✅common cause of cerebrocortical
dysfunction contributing to incontinence secondary to loss of
processing skills
Midbrain - correct answers ✅✅the assistant- sends the
messages to stimulate or inhibit voicing centers at the direction of
the cortex
Pons Storage Center - correct answers ✅✅active during bladder
filling, maintains contraction of the external sphincter via direct
stimulation of Onuf's nucleus (nerve cells in the sacral cord), and
storage promoted by the activation of the sympathetic nervous
system (SNS)
Pons Micturition center (Barrington's nucleus-) - correct answers
✅✅Active during bladder emptying, provides coordinated
voiding, and sends messages to inhibit the sympathetic nervous
system (SNS) and active the parasympathetic nervous system
(PNS)
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Pons centers - correct answers ✅✅controlled by the cortex
Spinal Cord - correct answers ✅✅carries messages back and
forth between the bladder and the sphincter
sympathetic nervous system (SNS) - correct answers ✅✅causes
the bladder neck to tighten and contributes to bladder relaxation
Neurotransmitters for the SNS - correct answers ✅✅epinephrine
and Norepinephrine
urine storage and promote continence - correct answers
✅✅stimulation of the SNS
sudafed, NSSRI's (cymbalta) - correct answers
✅✅sympathomimetic drugs that have an unlabeled use to
decrease urinary leakage in some patients
None - correct answers ✅✅approved medication for urinary
incontinence
Reflex incontinence - correct answers ✅✅greatest risk for
urinary tract infection
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Infection, irritants, chronic constipation, and atrophic urethritis -
correct answers ✅✅reversible factors that contributes to urinary
incontinence
using a small catheter with a small balloon - correct answers
✅✅what you should include in a protocol for management of
patients with indwelling urethral catheters to reduce the risk of
complications
adequate volume of fluid intake to keep urine dilute - correct
answers ✅✅intervention to help reduce urinary odor in patients
with urinary incontinence
Bladder retraining program to increase bladder capacity - correct
answers ✅✅the most appropriate intervention for a patient with
urgency, frequency, and urge incontinence to improve her bladder
control
Caffeine and aspartame - correct answers ✅✅blatter irritants
provide education on alarm therapy - correct answers ✅✅the
most appropriate plan to gain night time continence in a child
with enuresis that wants to go to camp with other children
Anticholinergics such as oxybutynin (ditropan) - correct answers
✅✅beneficial for patients with OAB/urge incontinence