Changing indwelling urinary catheters using bladder infill.
The commonest method used in changing indwelling urinary catheters, either urethral or supra-pubic, is to remove the catheter and proceed to re-catheterise. When removing the catheter with patients using drainage bags on continual drainage, the urinary bladder becomes empty of urine. This may then leave the practitioner following re-catheterisation and often with no immediate drainage of urine, if the catheter has been safely inserted. A method which the author has used for many years and has experienced no problems is re-catheterisation using bladder infill. This article explains what is meant by bladder infill and how re-catheterisation can be undertaken safely using this method.
Robinson
John
J
Continence Advisory Service, Morecambe Bay PCT, Morecambe. john.robinson@mbpct.nhs.uk
D000328:Adult; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D002648:Child; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods; D020878:Device Removal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000503:physiopathology; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*