The patient has a urinary tract infection and experiences an episode of urinary incontinence. This is classified as what type of urinary incontinence?
a. transient c. stress
b. chronic d. unstable
A
Transient causes of urinary incontinence include urinary tract infection. Chronic urinary incontinence refers to one of four types of incontinence: stress, overactive bladder, overflow, and extraurethral. Stress urinary incontinence is the uncontrolled loss of urine caused by physical exertion in the absence of a detrusor muscle contraction. There is no classification as unstable urinary incontinence.
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