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Post-operative urinary retention in women: management by intermittent catheterization. 1990

N K Smith, and J D Morrant
Department of Health Care of the Elderly, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.

We have investigated the value of intermittent catheterization in the management of post-operative urinary retention occurring in elderly women after operative fixation of lower limb fracture. Eleven patients, aged 70-86, underwent intermittent catheterization two or three times daily for between 9 and 40 days as inpatients, and one patient continued intermittent self-catheterization at home for 3 months after discharge. Ten patients became continent. One severely disabled lady required an indwelling catheter. Intermittent catheterization is safe and practical, with several advantages over indwelling catheterization in the management of post-operative urinary retention during inpatient rehabilitation.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011183 Postoperative Complications Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D000369 Aged, 80 and over Persons 80 years of age and older. Oldest Old
D014546 Urinary Catheterization Passage of a CATHETER into the URINARY BLADDER or kidney. Catheterization, Ureteral,Catheterization, Urethral,Catheterization, Urinary,Foley Catheterization,Ureteral Catheterization,Urethral Catheterization,Catheterization, Foley,Catheterizations, Ureteral,Catheterizations, Urethral,Catheterizations, Urinary,Ureteral Catheterizations,Urethral Catheterizations,Urinary Catheterizations
D016055 Urinary Retention Inability to empty the URINARY BLADDER with voiding (URINATION). Retention, Urinary

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