Acute urinary retention and its management

Question 1

Acute urinary retention and its management

Answer 1

• Acute urinary retention may occur in patients with longstanding symptoms of bladder outlet obstruction
• Often precipitated by overfilling of the bladder, faecal loading or urinary tract infection.
• diagnosis is not usually difficult—the patient in retention is acutely distressed with abdominal or perineal pain and a readily palpable bladder