Acute Urinary Retention

Inability to urinate, with increasing pain

Aetiology

  • Complication of BPH
  • Aetiology poorly understood - prostate infection, bladder overdistension, excessive fluid intake, alcohol, prostatic infaction
  • Can be separated into two categories:
    • Spontaneous
    • Precipitated - non-prostate related surgery, catheterization or urethral instrumentation, anaethesia, medication with sympathomimetic or anticholinergic effects

Management

  • Catheter