Urology: Trauma and Urological Emergencies
Urology · Clinical Specialties
How it begins
Guía clínica exhaustiva: fisiopatología, clasificación, diagnóstico, manejo y complicaciones — enfoque médico-quirúrgico de nivel especializado.
What it covers
- · Content
- 🔬 1. Introduction: Urological Emergencies
- 🩸 2. Kidney Trauma
- · Mechanisms of injury
- · AAST Classification (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma)
- · Diagnosis of Kidney Trauma
- · Management of Renal Trauma
- 🔗 3. Ureteral Trauma
- · Etiology and mechanisms
- · AAST classification of ureteral injury
- · Diagnosis — the great challenge
- · Principles of surgical repair
- 🫧 4. Bladder Trauma
- · Mechanisms
- · Classification: Intraperitoneal rupture vs. extraperitoneal
- · Diagnosis
- · Critical clinical correlation
- ⚡ 5. Trauma Uretral
- · Anterior Urethra
- · Posterior Urethra
- 🔵 6. Male Genital Trauma
- · Penis Fracture
- · Testicular Trauma
- · Traumatic Penile Amputation / Avulsion
- ⚡ 7. Renoureteral Colic (RUC)
- · Physiopathology
- · Clinical
- · Diagnosis
- · Uncomplicated CRU management
- 🚱 8. Acute Urinary Retention (AUR)
- · Etiology
- · Diagnosis
- · Immediate management: Urethral catheterization
- · Long-term management and referral
- 🔴 9. Testicular Torsion
- · Epidemiology and anatomy
- · Pathophysiology of testicular ischemia
- · Diagnosis
- · Management
- · Differential diagnosis of acute scrotum
- 🟣 10. Priapism
- · Physiopathological classification
- · Treatment of ischemic priapism (stepped algorithm)
- · Priapism in sickle cell anemia
- 💀 11. Fournier's gangrene
- · Microbiology
- · Risk factors
- · Entry door
- · Clinical diagnosis
- · Fournier's Gangrene Severity Score (FGSI)
- · Treatment
- 🔥 12. Urosepsis and Pyonephrosis
- · Updated definitions (Sepsis-3, 2016)
- · Pyonephrosis
- · Management of urosepsis
- · Emphysematous pyelonephritis
- 🩸 13. Macroscopic Hematuria as an Emergency
- · Causes according to age and clinical signs
- · Clot retention (CPR)
- 🔵 14. Paraphimosis
- · Physiopathology
- · Clinical context
- · Emergency management
- 📋 15. Late Complications and Follow-up
- · Sequence of kidney trauma
- · Post-traumatic urethral stricture
- · Post-traumatic erectile dysfunction
- · Follow-up of patients with urological trauma
- · Summary of Clinical Priorities in Urological Emergencies
The complete study guide is in the app
This page summarizes the outline. The full interactive study guide —with high-yield diagrams, clinical tables, and board review cases— can be read inside Epistemis, completely offline and ad-free.
- Subject
- Urology
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 69
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02