I'm not trying to be cryptic, but suffice to say that, given this patient's extremely traumatic history, I was a bit surprised to learn that urethral catheterization was not contraindicated. I suppose a better way to say it, was that the benefits outweighed the risks (of course, the patient would have said otherwise if you put the psychological "risks" on the table.)
I am concerned about giving any more detail than that due to HIPAA. As you might have guessed, this case was a real outlier in many ways.
This is the kind of stuff that "goes bump in the night" for us young-uns....*sigh*
To the earlier poster who suggested secretively placing an intra-op Foley....are you serious?! Pretty sure they could nail you for assault and battery, maybe even sexual assault... in addition to the obvious licensure issues. As a woman and mom, if anybody did that to me, it would be they that ended up with something going IN to one of their "OUT" holes... just saying