Post-operative Urinary Retention (POUR) Following Thoracic Surgery
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2024-05-02
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Inability to urinate a common complication that happens to many patients after a surgery,
especially in men over 60 years of age who undergo surgery on their chest. Urinary retention
is uncomfortable, increases anxiety, increases hospital length of stay, and leads to more
procedures such as putting in a bladder catheter (Foley). This is uncomfortable, and can lead
to bleeding, infection, damage to the urethra and/or bladder and bladder spasm. The goal of
this study is to attempt to prevent inability to urinate by giving patients a medication
called Flomax (Tamusolin) every day beginning a week before surgery. That medication relaxes
the prostate. It's approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to improve urinary flow
in those with enlarged prostates. It is also commonly used in patients with bladder problems
due to inability to urinate who have required a Foley.