Early Removal of Urinary Catheters in Patients After Rectal Surgery: a Prospective Study
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer
In brief
Recent national surgical quality guidelines (Surgical Care Improvement Project, National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures)state that removal of urinary catheters should occur by post-operative day two for all surgical patients. These guidelines exclude neither patients who have undergone rectal surgery nor those with epidural analgesic catheters. The common practice among most colorectal surgeons is to leave urinary catheters in for three to five days for patients who have undergone rectal operations, due to concern for urinary retention. This study aims to explore the outcomes of following the national surgical guidelines for early urinary catheter removal, especially with regards to urinary retention and urinary tract infection.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01186237
- Run by
- Stanford University
- People needed
- 26
- Starts
- 2010-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-03-22
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All patients at Stanford Hospital undergoing:
- anterior resection
- sigmoid colectomy
- low anterior resection
- abdomino-perineal resection
- total proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-analanastomosis
- coloanalanastomosis.
- Exclusion criteria Patients with history of neurogenic bladder who had indwelling catheters or required intermittent straight catheterization prior to surgery
Where it is running
- Stanford University School of Medicine — Stanford, California, United States
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