Bladder management in patients undergoing spine surgery: An assessment of care delivery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lower urinary tract dysfunction is common in the early postoperative phase after spine surgery. Although it is essential for an optimal patient management to balance benefits and harms, it is not known which patient benefit from a perioperative indwelling catheter. We therefore evaluated urological parameters prior and after spine surgery performing a quality assessment of our current clinical practice in bladder management.

Methods

Preoperatively, all patients completed the International Prostate Symptom Score and were interviewed for urological history. Decision for preoperative urethral catheter placement was individually made by the responsible anesthesiologist according to an in-house protocol. Within and between group analyses using univariate and probabilit

SUBMITTER: Leitner L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820009 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature