Post-operative Urinary Retention (POUR) Following Thoracic Surgery (POUR)
Urinary Retention
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Urinary Retention focused on measuring post operative urinary retention, inability to urinate, urinary retentions, lung cancer, VATs, Robotic Lung Surgery, lung resections
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Inclusion criteria:
Males
≥60 years old Planned surgical procedure of a minimally invasive thoracic surgical procedure (wedge resection, segmentectomy, lobectomy, pleural biopsy, or pleurodesis) Surgery scheduled more than 3 days from the time of consent
Patient eligibility criteria should be listed. (Medical criteria, age, demonstration of disease, ailment, etc., proof of failure using standard therapy, laboratory assessments for eligibility, etc.).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Using Flomax already
- Allergy to Flomax or sulfa drugs
- Current use of alpha blockers or alpha agonists
- Resting systolic blood pressure <100
- Orthostatic hypotension of >20mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) Systolic and/or 10mm Hg diastolic pressure from sitting to standing (after 2 minutes of standing) as measured at the time of consent
- Known diagnosis of congestive heart failure and valvular heart disease
- History of prostate surgery (prostatectomy, trans-urethral resection)
Sites / Locations
- Daniel MansourRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
1 week Pre-operative Tamsulosin administration
3 days Pre-operative Tamsulosin administration