INCONTINENCE PADS - PREDICTING THEIR LEAKAGE PERFORMANCE USING LABORATORY TESTS (REPRINTED FROM PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL-CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE-ENGINEERING-IN-MEDICINE-AND-BIOLOGY-SOCIETY, OCTOBER 29 TO NOVEMBER 1, 1992, PARIS, FRANCE, VOLUME 14, PG 1608-1609, 1992)
A. Cottenden et D. Ledger, INCONTINENCE PADS - PREDICTING THEIR LEAKAGE PERFORMANCE USING LABORATORY TESTS (REPRINTED FROM PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL-CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE-ENGINEERING-IN-MEDICINE-AND-BIOLOGY-SOCIETY, OCTOBER 29 TO NOVEMBER 1, 1992, PARIS, FRANCE, VOLUME 14, PG 1608-1609, 1992), Neurourol. urodyn., 12(3), 1993, pp. 289-291
An international multi-centre project was performed to discover which
laboratory tests best predict the leakage performance of incontinence
pads. A combination of absorption capacity and absorption time measure
ments along with the presence/absence of pad shaping and elastication
produced impressive correlations with clinical performance.