Catheter Care
Attaching a catheter valve
For this procedure you require:
- Someone who has been taught to perform this procedure
- Alcohol hand gel if available
- Catheter Valve
- Alcohol wipe
- Waste bag
Do you have a urinary catheter and wish to attach or replace a catheter valve? This film will refresh your knowledge in how to attach the valve.
Changing a suprapubic catheter
For this procedure you require:
- Someone who has been taught to perform this procedure
- Sterile pack containing gallipots, receiver, gauze swabs, disposable towels, forceps
- Disposable pad
- 0.9% sodium chloride for cleansing
- Alcohol-based hand rub
- Thigh strap for tethering
- Sterile gloves
- Sterile water
- Selection of appropriate catheters
- Syringe (as required to obtain a urine sample)
- Sterile anaesthetic or lubricating jelly
- Universal specimen container
- Drainage bag and straps or catheter valve
- Clean towel or similar
This short film will refresh your knowledge on changing a suprapubic catheter.
How to flush ureteric stents
For this procedure you require:
- Someone who has been taught to perform this procedure
- 0.9% sodium chloride
- Blunt needle or bander stent connectors
- 10ml luer lock or luer tip syringe
- Sterile gauze
- Alcohol-based hand rub
- Blunt disposable clamps
- Alcohol (chlorhexidine) wipe
- Replacement drainage bag
- Sterile pack
This film refreshes your skills on flushing ureteric stents.
How to attach a catheter night drainage bag
Do you have a urinary catheter and wish to attach or replace a night drainage bag? This film will refresh your knowledge in how to attach the night bag.
