Technology allows bladder function to be assessed with minimal discomfort to the patient

Providing more comfort to patients during urodynamic assessment, studying storage, transport and emptying of the bladder, was one of the purposes of the research carried out by researchers from the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) and the Center for Biomedical Engineering (CEB). They developed a device called a urethral connector which, in addition to providing greater comfort to patients, also reduces the risk of infection and makes it possible to measure the increase in pressure inside the bladder – bladder pressure – in a minimally invasive way, unlike the options available on the national market. , at the moment. Made of PVC and Teflon, it does not require probes, has already been tested on patients at the Hospital das Clínicas (HC) at Unicamp and was licensed, in 2016, to the company Dynamed. read doing more.

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Carlos Arturo Levi D´Ancona, from FCM and José Wilson Magalhães Bassani, from CEB (Editing: Paulo Cavalheri)

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