Device for diagnosing and monitoring urological diseases
OwnerBaumberg Iosifinventor
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Abstract
A device for diagnosing and monitoring urological diseases includes a determining unit for determining at least one characteristic of patient's urination such as a urine exit speed variation or a urine quantity variation over a period of time. Both characteristics can also be determined simultaneously by the unit. A urine receiving element for a patient and a characteristic recording element for a physician can be formed as separate units located remotely from one another.
Claims10
A device for diagnosing and monitoring urological diseases, comprising means for determining variations of an exit speed of a urine stream during urination of a patient over a period of time as a function of time, said determining means including a plurality of first sensing elements arranged successively one after the other and therefore at different distances from a point of urine stream exit and having inputs formed so that a urine stream flowing out of a patient directly reaches a respective one-of-said sensing elements without passing through intermediate elements, so that when the urine stream reaches a respective one of said first sensing elements a signal is produced which corresponds to its distance from the urine exit point of a patient and is therefore an indication of the linear exit speed of the urine stream;
- means for producing said signal;
- and selecting means cooperating with said determining means so that in the event when the urine stream reaches more than one of said sensing elements the signal is produced by only such sensing element which is located further from the urine exit point.
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