title: Intermittent self-catheterization: principles and practice.
abstract: Intermittent self-catheterization (ISC) is becoming more widely used by patients to drain their urinary bladder rather than having a long-term indwelling urinary catheter. ISC can be undertaken by people of all ages to empty their bladder of urine or by a nurse or doctor to measure residual urine after the patient has passed urine. Those patients unable to undertake the procedure themselves may have the procedure undertaken by a parent, spouse, carer or nurse to drain their bladder of urine. Modern day intermittent catheters can be used almost anywhere when drainage of the urinary bladder is required.
authors.affiliation: Continence Advisory Service, Morecambe Bay Primary Care Trust, Morecambe. john.robinson@mbpct.nhs.uk
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D015984:Causality; D004282:Documentation; D004322:Drainage; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D004867:Equipment Design; D017743:Equipment Reuse; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D017053:Infection Control; D008297:Male; D016743:Mental Competency; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D018579:Patient Selection; D012648:Self Care / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014563:Urodynamics