An alternative to manage a nondeflating Foley catheter in women.
The urologist is frequently called upon to remove a nondeflating Foley catheter. The basic strategies to accomplish removal involve relieving obstruction of the blocked balloon port channel, dissolving the rubber balloon chemically or rupturing the balloon percutaneously. A less invasive technique of balloon rupture in the female patient, using a peri-catheter urethral route, is described.
Carr
L K
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Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
D002404:Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*