How Can Urodynamic Innovations be Better Integrated Into the Clinical Pathway? ICI-RS 2025

Urodynamics has seen, in common with any medical field reliant upon technology, many recent advances in the application of innovations. Novel and effective ideas have been developed and marketed, but relatively few have been incorporated into clinical practice.

A debate held at the International Consultation on Incontinence-Research Society (ICI-RS) meeting in Bristol, UK, in June 2025 looked at new technology and its possible inclusion into the patient pathway.

Discussion acknowledged that new ideas have not always been comprehensively examined, assessed, or applied. The meeting considered ways to rectify this gap and proposed research that is needed to give evidence-based take-up of innovation in this field.

We propose a tool that examines the time, costs, and a test's specificity and sensitivity for each patient group, to suggest an optimal pathway for that group. The meeting also concluded that techniques involving ultrasound and catheter-free monitoring hold promise and proposed research needed to promote the take-up of innovation in this field.