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Beyond a certain capacity the bladder is no longer contractile and must be catheterized to urinate. Happens every day in the OR or PACU.
by niels_olson 14y ago
Beyond a certain capacity the bladder is no longer contractile and must be catheterized to urinate. Happens every day in the OR or PACU.
- maaku 14y agoReally? What happened before modern medicine? I'm not being snarky: I believe you.. but a burst bladder would be lethal without access to modern medical knowledge. That seems like a epic fail by evolution.
- niels_olson 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
- bosch 14y agoNow I have something to be paranoid about and will be going the bathroom as much as possible.
- niels_olson 14y agoAlcohol is a double-whammy because it induces a degree of transient paresis, allowing the inebriated to hold it longer than they should. Just don't fight the urge and you'll be fine.
- jkbyc 14y agoYou should do that in any case. Putting it off is not good for your prostate.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoThere are lots of epic fails by evolution, is more about quantity than quality so to speak.
- vacri 14y agoAn extreme outlier is hardly an 'epic fail'.
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- jeffdavis 14y agoBefore modern life, we had plenty of opportunity to urinate well before it became a serious problem. If we were intelligently designed, after all, I think God would call holding it for hours a "user error" and mark it "won't fix".
- jacquesm 14y agoYou died. A burst bladder is quite fatal.
- trustfundbaby 14y agowow! I learned something today. So just to confirm, you're saying that if (for example) I hold my pee for whatever reason, after a certain point, I might not be able to pee unless they catheterize my bladder?