Follow us On YouTube Follow us On FaceBook



or
Search Language
Browse
Medical Animations
Medical Animation Titles
Custom Legal Animations
Patient Health Articles
Most Recent Uploads
Body Systems/Regions
Anatomy & Physiology
Diseases & Conditions
Cells & Tissues
Diagnostics & Surgery
Cardiovascular System
Digestive System
Integumentary System
Nervous System
Reproductive System
Respiratory System
Back and Spine
Foot and Ankle
Head and Neck
Hip
Knee
Shoulder
Thorax
Medical Specialties
Cancer
Cardiology
Dentistry
Editorial
Neurology/Neurosurgery
Ob/Gyn
Orthopedics
Pediatrics
Account
Administrator Login

Caring For Your Suprapubic Catheter: Discharge Instructions - Medical Animation

 

This animation may only be used in support of a single legal proceeding and for no other purpose. Read our License Agreement for details. To license this image for other purposes, click here.

Ready to License?

Item #AND12006 — Source #1

Order by phone: (800) 338-5954

Caring For Your Suprapubic Catheter: Discharge Instructions - Medical Animation
MEDICAL ANIMATION TRANSCRIPT: Please watch the entire video before emptying the urine collection bag or cleaning your catheter. This video will teach you how to empty the urine collection bag attached to your suprapubic catheter and how to clean the catheter. A suprapubic catheter is a thin rubber tube that runs from your bladder through a small incision in your lower abdomen to a bag that collects the urine. A balloon filled with water holds the catheter in place. Caring for your suprapubic catheter involves emptying the collection bag and cleaning your incision. To empty your suprapubic catheter, you will need a clean cloth or paper towels to clean up spills, disposable gloves, and a wastebasket. Be sure to keep the urine collection bag lower than your hips to allow the urine to drain out of your bladder and into the bag. Step 1: wash your hands with soap and water and then dry them. Step 2: put on disposable gloves. Step 3: hold the bottom of the collection bag over a toilet. Step 4: open the drain valve. Urine will begin draining from the bag. Step 5: close the valve. Step 6: remove your disposable gloves and throw them away in the wastebasket. Step 7: wash your hands with soap and water and then dry them. Now, you will begin cleaning your catheter. You will need a plastic bag, a wastebasket, a clean washcloth, clean paper towels, cotton swabs or cotton balls, disposable gloves, a four-inch by four-inch split dressing gauze, and dressing tape. Be careful not to pull on the tubing when cleaning your catheter. Step 1: wash your hands with soap and water and then dry them. Step 2: put on disposable gloves. Step 3: gently remove any old dressing materials around your catheter incision. Put the old dressing in a plastic bag and throw it into the wastebasket. Step 4: remove your disposable gloves and throw them away in the wastebasket. Step 5: wash your hands again with soap and water and then dry them. Step 6: put on disposable gloves. Step 7: wash the skin around your incision using a washcloth and warm, soapy water. Dry your skin completely with a clean paper towel. Step 8: wash about four inches of the catheter tube where it enters your skin with a cotton swab or ball and warm, soapy water. Start at your incision and wipe away from your body. Do not wipe toward your incision. Step 9: place a new four-inch by four-inch split dressing gauze at your incision and around the catheter tube. Tape the gauze in place using dressing tape. Be sure to clean your suprapubic catheter at least once a day. Contact your surgeon if you have any questions about your suprapubic catheter; you have chills, and your temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit or higher; your bladder feels full, but you see no urine draining into the bag; your incision is bleeding or swollen; urine is leaking around your catheter; your urine is cloudy, has a foul odor, you see grit or stones in your urine, or you noticed bright red blood in your urine. It is normal to see a small amount of blood or pink-tinged urine after some procedures.

YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO REVIEW THESE ITEMS:
Incision Care Discharge Instructions
Incision Care Discharge Instructions - AND13008
Medical Animation
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
Sigmoid Colostomy with Suprapubic Catheter Placement
Sigmoid Colostomy with Suprapubic Catheter Placement - exh5106b
Medical Exhibit
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
Using Crutches: Discharge Instructions
Using Crutches: Discharge Instructions - AND12007
Medical Animation
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
Urinary Incontinence with Suprapubic Catheter Placement
Urinary Incontinence with Suprapubic Catheter Placement - exh75940b
Medical Exhibit
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
Foley Catheter for the Treatment of Urinary Bladder Perforation
Foley Catheter for the Treatment of Urinary Bladder Perforation - BX00073
Medical Illustration
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
Proper Technique for the Insertion of an Intravenous Catheter
Proper Technique for the Insertion of an Intravenous Catheter - exh54950
Medical Exhibit
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
Correct vs. Incorrect Placement of Umbilical Catheter in Newborn
Correct vs. Incorrect Placement of Umbilical Catheter in Newborn - exh5286a
Medical Exhibit
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
Catheter Insertion into Urinary Bladder
Catheter Insertion into Urinary Bladder - exh4828
Medical Exhibit
Add to my lightbox
Find More Like This
What attorneys say about MLA and The Doe Report:
"Thank you very much for the great work on the medical exhibits. Our trial resulted in a $16 million verdict for a 9 year old boy with catastrophic injuries, and the medical illustrations definitely played key role in the trial."

David Cutt
Brayton Purcell
Salt Lake City, UT

"I have a medical illustration created by Medical Legal Art at the beginning of every case to tell the client's story, usually before I depose the defendant doctor. The work product and cost-efficiency are outstanding. It is a situation where, as a trial lawyer, I don't leave home without it."

Rockne Onstad
Attorney at Law
Austin, TX

"This past year, your company prepared three medical illustrations for our cases; two in which we received six figure awards; one in which we received a substantial seven figure award. I believe in large part, the amounts obtained were due to the vivid illustrations of my clients' injuries and the impact on the finder of fact."

Donald W. Marcari
Marcari Russotto & Spencer, P.C.
Chesapeake, VA

"I would like to thank all of you at Medical Legal Art for all the assistance you provided. It was a result of the excellent, timely work that we were able to conclude the case successfully.

I feel very confident that our paths will cross again."

Fritz G. Faerber
Faerber & Anderson, P.C.
St. Louis, MO













Awards | Resources | Articles | Become an Affiliate | Free Medical Images | Pregnancy Videos
Credits | Jobs | Help | Medical Legal Blog | Find a Lawyer | Hospital Marketing