A new uroflowmeter for routine clinical use.

A uroflowmeter has been produced using a simple strain gauge transducer system with a performance that has been optimised to provide various micturition parameters with an accuracy consistent with the known physiological range. The total cost of the uroflowmeter is around L140 including the digital read-out. The results from over 300 patients have been collected and the flow curves of over 100 of these have been obtained. It is hoped that we can define a set of clinically significant parameters from each flow curve and correlate these against their associated urological conditions. Since, with the majority of patients, only one test is carried out, the parameters would also have to be significant for a single result.