Research Article
What Are the Risk Factors Associated with Urinary Retention after Orthopaedic Surgery?
Table 1
Patient demographics and characteristics.
| Demographic or characteristic | Number of patients |
| Sex (male/ female) | 7798/7883 | Age at surgery (years) | 45.2 ± 23.1 (range, 0–107) | Type of anesthesia (general/spinal or epidural) | 7372/8309 | Type of surgery (joint arthroplasty/other types of surgery) | 3784/11,897 | Medical history of HTN | 3630 | Medical history of DM | 1610 | Consultation to urology department | 752 | Postoperative urinary retention | 365 | Voiding problem | 234 | Urinary tract infection | 36 | Genitourinary tract disease† | 39 | Genital organs problem | 39 | Preoperative voiding difficulty | 20 | Trauma | 19 |
|
|
Voiding problems include frequency, hematuria, dysuria, nocturia, incontinence, and urgency; †genitourinary tract diseases include benign prostate hypertrophy, malignancy, and urinary stone; HTN = hypertension; DM = diabetes mellitus.
|