Incidence of POUR in Patients Having Undergone Elective Spinal Surgery
Milind Kashyap
Department of Orthopaedics, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Navin Balasubramaniam
Department of Orthopaedics, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Abstract
Purpose: To determine the incidence of POUR (post operative urine retention) in patients that have undergone elective spinal surgeries.
Methods: This was a retrospective study carried out in the Department of Orthopaedics and was done by reviewing the post operative records of 150 patients that had undergone elective spinal surgery in the past 8 months and prospectively checked for POUR afterward.
Results: The end results show that out of the total number of patients studied, which is 148, (excluding 2 according to the exclusion criteria), 14 developed POUR at the end of the 8-month study while 134 remained unaffected, making the total incidence to be 9.4% for this study.
Keywords: POUR, elective spinal surgery, retrospective study