Do You Really Need that Catheter?

I just could n’t resist . This is really just a tarradiddle about how nurses need to remember where they put their pant snake , but it ’s such a fascinating matter and is kind of gadgety if you consider rubber tube a gadget .

See , a lot of infections occur when patient baby-sit around too long with a mainline in their mainline .

“ Doctors are responsible for grade the removal of catheters , but research has establish that many of them forget which patient role have catheter and how long they have them , ” enunciate lead writer Sanjay Saint , M.D. , M.P.H. , a hospitalist at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and an associate prof of inner medication at the U - M Medical School . “ Our admonisher organization helps doctors do the veracious affair , ” he adds .

Mission Impossible 8 Underwater

I intend would n’t you remember ? Would n’t you notice a bag of piss lie down around ? I intend my married woman reminds me about mine almost every day and I do n’t even wear a catheter ! Extra full point : expect at the name of that catheter in the image … the Xpresso . Mmmm … frothy . Ray say that ’s a delineation of a piddle - pissing catheter . It has a balloon . For comfort .

Hey doc , do I still ask this catheter?[EurekaAlert ]

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