Archive For The “Catheter” Category
Texas catheter or external catheter offers tremendous benefits to the male urinary incontinence patients. It nicely fits over the penis and channels the urine into the drainage bag without any risk of contact with the skin. Due to its over-the-penis fit, Texas catheter is also referred to as condom catheter. Normally, it’s held nicely on [...]
Undoubtedly, when it comes to convenience and popularity, condom catheters have an edge over traditional catheters. The ease of wearing and removal, coupled with their inherent capacity to remain in place, make condom catheters a preferred option for men. While its popularity is understandable, a condom catheter can be the source of infections too, which [...]
Intermittent catheter is a useful medical aid for patients with injury to spinal cord, which renders the lower part of the body immobile and insensitive. Since they can’t feel the urge, urine tends to overflow involuntarily leading to wetting. In order to avoid such embarrassing situations, intermittent catheter is generally used to drain out all [...]
External catheter is fast gaining popularity among the medical fraternity over internally dwelling catheters. Earlier, the problem with external catheters was their slipping off from the penis, which caused damage to the skin, bedding as well as to the patient’s clothing. Although the instances of such slips were few and far between, yet they were [...]
Urinary incontinence patients often use foley catheter to get rid of the urine accumulated in the bladder, instead of experiencing embarrassment from the accidental urinary leakages in public. The catheter is held back in the bladder with the help of small balloon on its tip, which is inflated after insertion into the bladder. The other [...]
Catheter is useful medical equipment designed to empty the bladder of the urinary incontinence patients. Surgeons also use catheter among patients during surgeries requiring emptying of bladder and where the patient is unable to use toilet facilities. Although a little technical, the process of insertion of catheter in a female patient can be accomplished without [...]
What is a Catheter? In medical parlance, a catheter refers to a slender rubber or plastic tube that can be inserted into any cavity on the body in order to achieve multiple purposes, like draining out waste material from bladder, administration of medicine, or access of surgical instruments to the internal body organs. Catheterization, or [...]
What is an Intermittent Catheter? The self-use of a catheter when it is not required to stay in the bladder for long is commonly referred to as intermittent catheterization. In contrast with indwelling catheterization, an intermittent catheter is simply used as and when required and does not contain the balloon, since it is meant to [...]
What is an External Catheter? An external catheter is actually an antithesis of catheter, as understood in common medical parlance. Where an indwelling or intermittent catheter is inserted into the penis to reach the bladder and drain out the urine, an external catheter is simply placed over the penis is order to collect the out-flowing [...]
What is a Foley Catheter? A Foley catheter is a slender, flexible and sterile tube, which is inserted into the bladder to drain out urine from the body. The relative size of a Foley catheter varies from 10F to 28F (French Units). 1F is approximately equivalent to 0.33mm. This size represents the circumference of the [...]
