Why should a patient void before surgery?

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Why should a patient void before surgery?

Specializes in Staff nurse.
Why should a patient void before surgery?

Here's a great opportunity to do use/develop your critical thinking skills.

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Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.
They will bleed all over the table so why not pee as well?

I've seen a few surgeries, and they don't bleed "all over the table." They bleed, people suction, sponge, etc. There's not usually any puddles of blood just lying around. And if the doc is doing electrocautery you darn sure don't want the patient lying in an unexpected puddle of mostly water, i.e. pee. The people in OR are usually just as obsessive as the rest of us about controlling where the wet stuff is or is not, at any given moment.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

"They will bleed all over the table so why not pee as well? "

I sure hope you're joking and that you don't believe that..........

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