What's the most urine you've emptied from a bladder?

Perpetual Student · Mar 17, 2012

1200ish in a non-verbal hip revision patient. The X-ray tech called me to tell me that the dude's bladder was fixing to burst from what he could see on the AP pelvis. The patient seemed a LOT more comfortable after I cathed him.

Considering what a liter of urine feels in the bladder like I can't imagine what 1600 ml would be like. Ouch.

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Mar 17, 2012

Almost 1800 ml in a postpartum mom who hadn't voided since delivery, 11 hours before I started my shift. I couldn't believe no one had picked up on that......the poor girl was miserable and she could barely move. She did NOT want me to straight-cath her, but I told her about having to be cathed after my own first baby was born for the same reason, and she finally agreed. It was almost funny, how she went from practically writhing in pain to being a little more animated to smiling and laughing with her partner as the urine flowed into the pan. I couldn't believe how much she'd been holding onto......if she hadn't been a healthy 21-year-old I don't know what I'd have done, that's a HUGE amount of urine to lose all at once. :eek:

allnurses Guide · Mar 17, 2012

Around 1500 or so, more than once. Poor fellows who come in with urinary retention; tend to get an ED bed rather quickly from triage.

With my 2nd kid, I kept telling them I was uncomfortable and had to go; "oh that's just the baby". Peed 900 after the birth.

loriangel14, RN · Mar 17, 2012

1900 from a patient that insisted she was just fine,no discomfort at all.

sapphire18 · Mar 17, 2012

Had a pt void 1800 the first time she went and 1650 the second time...how was she not hurting?? Almost all of our pts have foleys so this shocked me a little bit!! (she was also in with hyponatremia caused by drinking too much water..go figure)

nurse2033, MSN, RN · Mar 17, 2012

2.5L, not kidding, stood there in awe and had to empty the bag as it filled.

MomRN0913 · Mar 17, 2012

I live on the east coast and my dad was vacationing in CA when he had an MI and had a cardiac cath. After the procedure, the nurse calls me (knowing I am a nurse) and says "can you please talk to your dad, he can't void and is in a lot of pain and is refusing the straight cath" He is a very stubborn man. I get him on the phone and I had never heard him in so much pain. I talked him into it, and the nruse called me after and said "woah, he had a lot to void" I spoke to him and I never heard him so releived in his life.

Then he wanted to kill me when he got home because he got an infection you know where.

Dazglue, ADN, BSN, MSN, RN · Mar 17, 2012

3300. I came on shift and did her assesment. I saw her belly and almost fainted! Poor lady. According to the tech's, they've been telling her previous nurses that she hadn't peed in almost 3 days. I was ****** to say the least.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Mar 17, 2012

the night nurse got 2200cc out of me when i begged her to straight cath me postpartum. by morning the cause had declared itself more forcefully: necrotizing fasciitis in the episiotomy ::eyes watering at the memory::. i told her i couldn't pee. had a foley for a week.

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Mar 17, 2012

the night nurse got 2200cc out of me when i begged her to straight cath me postpartum. by morning the cause had declared itself more forcefully: necrotizing fasciitis in the episiotomy ::eyes watering at the memory::. i told her i couldn't pee. had a foley for a week.

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VICEDRN, BSN, RN · Mar 17, 2012

1750 on a huge former football player with spinal shock syndrome who was regularly putting out those amounts. Apparently, some people have huge bladders and that fluid resus...well...it had to come out eventually...