Can Urinary Catheterization Before Birth Reduce Postpartum Urinary Retention?

Postpartum urinary retention.

BACKGROUND Urinary retention is a common and frustrating complication in women during the immediate postpartum period. Physiologic changes in the bladder that occur during pregnancy predispose patients to develop symptomatic retention of urine during the first hours to days after delivery. METHODS The incidence and characteristics of postpartum urinary retention were researched through a lite...

[Effectiveness of cleaning or disinfecting the urinary meatus before urinary catheterization: a systematic review].

The urinary tract infections associated with catheterization are very common in hospital and home care contexts. Currently there are several recommendations for its prevention, however, when approaching the kind of solute used in the urinary meatus prior to catheterization doubts continue to persist. Thus this study aimed at determining the effectiveness of cleaning the urinary meatus with wate...

Does cesarean section reduce postpartum urinary incontinence? A systematic review.

BACKGROUND The impact of delivery mode on the development of urinary incontinence has been much debated. The primary objective of this systematic review was to compare the prevalence of postpartum urinary incontinence after cesarean section compared with vaginal birth. METHODS The MEDLINE (1966-2005) and CINAHL (1982-2005) databases were searched for reports specifying postpartum prevalence o...

Benign transient urinary retention.

Three cases of acute urinary retention due to sacral myeloradiculitis are described. The authors stress the importance of diagnosing this rare and benign condition, which, in the past, has too often been mislabelled as either psychogenic or the first manifestation of a demyelinating disease.

Urinary retention in women.