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Michael Sweeney1, Mary Jo Cerepani
1Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
A middle-aged man arrives from a nursing facility to the emergency department with urinary retention and abdominal pain. A bladder scan was performed to identify the amount of urine in the bladder. Multiple attempts were made to place a urinary catheter without difficulty, but no urine was identified. When several attempts are made to insert a urinary catheter without success of urinary output, one must stop and rule out other causes. This case study outlines the etiology, diagnostics tests, and management of a patient with urinary retention.
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