A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Retrograde Partial Bladder Fill on Time to Discharge and Overall Medical Staff Satisfaction

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Retrograde Bladder Fill

Treatments: Procedure: retrograde bladder filling with 0.9% normal saline 250cc prior to removal of foley catheter

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04309032

B-1806-474-004

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a randomized controlled trial on the effect of retrograde partial bladder fill on time to discharge in patients who have had urological surgery for BPH, and whether it affects overall medical staff satisfaction.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any male patient between ages 20-80 with foley catheter indwelled after urological surgery performed at our institution

Exclusion criteria

• Any patient that does not remove foley catheter at discharge

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

Bladder fill

Experimental group

Description:

Retrograde bladder filling of 250cc of 0.9% normal saline for irrigation prior to removal of foley catheter

Treatment:

Procedure: retrograde bladder filling with 0.9% normal saline 250cc prior to removal of foley catheter

No bladder Fill

No Intervention group

Description:

no filling prior to removal of foley catheter