[Study on most common overnight urological service consultations.]

In Argentina, our institutionhas a urology resident on call who handles requests to the single radio during nighttime. Few studies address this important issue that provides useful information to promote education and optimize hospital dynamics.

To describe the characteristics of the calls received in the urology radio during night shifts.

During the night shifts, all calls to the radio were recorded during the period between June and July 2019. We determined: time, source, sex, and age of the patient, reason for the call and classified the calls according to: calls for immediate resolution (which required urological instrumental intervention, bladder catheterization or lavage, etc.), unnecessary calls (wrong number), and the number of emergencies that require calling a superior for immediate surgical resolution.

We registered a total of 325 calls, most of them male patients. The main reason for calling was for placement, replacement, or washing of the urinary catheter or suprapubic catheter. We obtained 139 calls that required urological intervention. The highest number of calls was from the emergency department (119), followed by the Internal Medicine staff (47). Most of them (242) did not require patient admission. The total of unnecessary calls was three, corresponding to wrong number.

This study helped us to characterize the calls to the Urology radio from other services and emergency department, allowing us to identify the most common problems and educate based on this.