User talk:Wikimasterking

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Hello, Wikimasterking, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Age: Older people may suffer from degeneration of neural pathways involved with bladder function and it can lead to an increased risk of postoperative urinary retention. The risk of postoperative urinary retention increases up to 2.11 fold for patients older than 60 years.

Medications: [|Anticholinergics] and medications with anticholinergic properties, alpha-adrenergic agonists, opiates, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), calcium-channel blockers and beta-adrenergic agonists, may increase the risk of postoperative urinary retention.

Anesthesia: General anesthetics during surgery may cause bladder atony by acting as a smooth muscle relaxant. General anesthesics can directly interfere with autonomic regulation of detrusor tone and predispose people to bladder overdistention and subsequent retention. Spinal anesthesia results in a blockade of the micturition reflex. Spinal anesthesia shows a higher risk of postoperative urinary retention compared to general anesthesia.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Men with benign prostatic hyperplasia are at an increased risk of acute urinary retention.

Surgery related: Operative times longer than 2 hours may lead to an increased risk of postoperative urinary retention 3-fold.


 * Thanks for taking the time to re-visit this edit. I have made some modifications and edits. Here are a few comments:
 * I removed "patients" and replaced with "people" (Wikipedia prefers this, as mentioned in your comments above). ::*Can you please try to add wiki links to terms?
 * I find a few of your sentences to be a little complex for Wikipedia.
 * It is not necessary to state the # of studies in the meta-analysis, unless it is a controversial topic and you are presenting different viewpoints. I removed this sentence.
 * Please note: be sure to review the Wikistyle guide for medical articles (WP:MEDMOS. This content should not be added as a new heading to the article, it would go under the "causes" section. I would suggest putting it under the "chronic" paragraph.
 * I feel that you do not need separate headings for all these risk factors. I have put the sub-headings on the same line for now.
 * I removed "sex" as a risk factor, as this did not seem clear to me. If you to try to re-word it in the context of benign prostatic hyperplasia, or stating if males or females have a higher/lower risk, this may be a little more clear. I was also unsure why you added this section if you then went on to say that it "has not been strongly elucidated for postoperative urinary retention." I would suggest you remove the section (for now), or re-work it.JenOttawa (talk) 02:51, 27 November 2017 (UTC)