Sarcouncil Journal of Medicine and Surgery

Abstract: One of the most consequential postoperative complications after appendectomy is urinary retention (UR), as experienced in a smarter setting like Iraq, where a full health institution often has overcrowding, less resources, and different levels of surgical expertise. Due to its common post-operative complication along with urinary retention due to voluntary urine retention, it would tend to extend the patient-related hospital stay, thus raising the costs to be incurred in the provision of health as well as affecting recovery adversely within patients concerned. This study is, thus, cross-sectional and aims to evaluate the health outcomes and determinants associated with UR among patients undergoing appendectomy in Iraq in terms of demographics, surgical variables, or pharmacological influences. Risk factors would be age, sex, and surgical duration under general anesthesia, among other risks such as opioid use. Health outcomes include acute complications such as urinary tract infections and pain to chronic complications such as bladder dysfunction and kidney injury. Retrospective or prospective design will be employed, involving the analysis of information extracted from hospital records and patient interviews in identifying independent risk factors and evaluating UR's effect on recovery, quality of life, and healthcare costs. These findings will help in instituting specific improvement actions in postoperative care for a decrease in UR occurrence as well as lightening the incidence burden for the work of Iraq healthcare