BACKGROUND
This study was designed to test a treatment algorithm for management of bladder function after outpatient general or local anesthesia.
METHODS
Three hundred twenty-four outpatients, stratified into risk categories for urinary retention, were studied. Patients in category 1 were low-risk patients (n = 227) having non-pelvic surgery and randomly assigned to receive 10 ml/kg or 2 ml/k...
