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What do you do if you need to pee during surgery?
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Urinary catheter.: For long procedures, or for surgeries where urine output monitoring is important, a urinary (foley) catheter is placed while you are under anesthesia. This drains the bladder into a container. The catheter is removed in the recovery room or later in the inpatient ward. For short procedures, no catheter is used and you are given a urinal in recovery.
Answered 12/9/2013
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