BACKGROUND It is widely known that the opportunity for medical students to be observed and to receive feedback on their procedural skills performance is variable in the senior years. To address this problem, we provided our Pre-Intern (PrInt) students with "one-to-one" formative feedback on their ability to perform urethral catheterization (U/C) and hypothesized that their future practice of U/...

Urinary incontinence, difficulty voiding and recurrent urinary tract infections are common in general practice. In patients with multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, intervertebral disc lesions, spinal injuries or tumours, the symptoms may be associated with a high residual volume of urine owing to a neuropathic bladder. Similar complaints may occur in elderly people or in women with gynaecologica...

BACKGROUND Untreated postoperative urinary retention can result in permanent lower urinary tract dysfunction and can be prevented by timely bladder catheterization. The author hypothesized that the incidence of postoperative bladder catheterization can be decreased by using the patient's own maximum bladder capacity (MBC) instead of a fixed bladder volume of 500 ml as a threshold for catheteriz...

Utero-vaginal prolapse is one of the commonest cause for vaginal operations in our country. The expense of this operation can be reduced by reducing duration of catheterization and thereby reducing hospital stay. A prospective, comparative hospital based study was used to assess whether removal of an in-dwelling catheter after 24 hours of vaginal operations with anterior colporrhaphy affects th...

An 87-year-old woman was hospitalized for post-fall syndrome. Even though there was improvement in the post-fall syndrome, she had urinary retention, associated with fecaloma. Urinary catheterization showed acute urinary retention of 500mL. Urine microscopy and culture showed a resistant Escherichia coli strain. Given the absence of both clinical signs (apart from urinary retention) and inflamm...

BACKGROUND Indwelling urinary catheters are the main cause of healthcare-associated urinary tract infections. It can be expected that reduction of the use of urinary catheters will lead to decreased numbers of urinary tract infection. METHODS The efficacy of an intervention programme to improve adherence to recommendations to reduce the use of urethral catheters was studied in a before-after ...

Background: urinary retention is characterized as body inability to empty the bladder completely by voluntary micturition. The UR highly observed in male adult. But limited and sufficient knowledge present about its causes associated complication. Objective: It most common urological emergency hospitals. study aimed evaluate complications of retention. Material Methods: This prospective hospita...

OBJECTIVE To analyze predictive factors of acute urinary retention requiring catheterization after (125)I prostate brachytherapy. METHODS A group of 227 consecutive patients with localized prostate cancer were treated with (125)I prostate brachytherapy between September 2003 and December 2004. The clinical, treatment-related and dosimetric factors were evaluated for the need for catheterizati...

OBJECTIVE Suprapubic catheterization is commonly used for postoperative bladder drainage after gynecologic procedures. However, recent studies have suggested an increased rate of complications compared with urethral catheterization. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing suprapubic catheterization and urethral catheterization in gynecologic ...

Urethral catheterization is a predictor of agitation during the general anesthesia recovery period. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of intraurethral 5% lidocaine and 25 mg/g prilocaine cream in reducing catheter-related bladder discomfort (CRBD) in male patients during the general anesthesia recovery period. Adult male patients undergoing elective operations that required urin...