How to insert a catheter
Hand hygiene
Introduce
Gain consent
I've
been asked to insert a catheter to allow us to monitor your urine output
This
will involve putting a thin flexible tube into thebladder
Before
I put the tube in I will insert some local anaesthetic which should make the
procedure as comfortable as possible.
One
of the staff will be present as a chaperone
Chaperone
Do
you have any allergies at all?
Urinary
retention?
Check
in the notes about bladder scan?
Assemble equipment:
APRON
Woundcare pack
Saline
Catheter
Catheter bag
Instilagel
Sterile gloves (x2
There is one in the pack)
Incopad
Check patient ID
using bracelet
Clean trolley
Open pack
Put in saline and
instilagel in field
Arrange patient
Perform hand hygiene
and put on gloves
Arrange the sterile
towel
Retract foreskin
Clean head of the
penis with saline
Wiping away from the
urethral meatus
How
many
Use intilagel and
wait for up to 3 minutes
Inject a bit in the
tray
Remove gloves
Put in catheter and
bag on field
Perform hand hygeine
and replace gloves
Attach catheter to
bag
Coil catheter and
put bag between patients legs
Insert catheter
Ask
to cough if resistance at prostate
Put in 10cm after
the flow of urine
Inflate bladder
Gently pull on
catheter so it sits in neck of bladder
Thank the patient
Clean up
Document procedure
in notes
Perform hand hygiene