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Mon 18 May, 2009 04:48 pm
Suprapubic catheters
I know this isn't a real exciting topic, but if anyone has experience inserting suprapubic catheters I could use some advice.
Any tips on inserting one so that the catheter doesn't run into the penis? This is a problem I had the last time I inserted one no matter how I manipulated the catheter. I pulled it out a few inches until I thought it might be in the bladder where it belonged, but the patient remained a no-void. Is it just by chance that it does this?
Re: Suprapubic catheters
2542Daniel7 wrote:I know this isn't a real exciting topic, but if anyone has experience inserting suprapubic catheters I could use some advice.
Where I've worked, nurses were no allowed to insert them. Only the docs.
To clarify, I was only replacing a catheter, not inserting the original catheter with this patient. Also it was in a nursing home where RNs may be allowed to do this.
mark the one you remove and insert the new one to the same point
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