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THE CATHETER TEAM: AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE FOR REHABILITATING NEUROGENIC BLADDERS
Author(s) -
Pearman John W.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1977.tb04299.x
Subject(s) - medicine , rehabilitation , urinary catheterization , spinal cord injury , catheter , nursing , indwelling catheter , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , physical therapy , spinal cord , surgery , psychiatry
A carefully controlled programme of intermittent catheterization provides substantially better care of the bladder than indwelling catheters during the initial period after acute spinal cord injury. It is very difficult to maintain a programme of intermittent catheterization around the clock without a small team of nursing personnel highly skilled in the technique of aseptic catheterization. The practical details of setting up a catheter team are described. Some of the results that have been associated with the establishment of such a team at the Rehabilitation Branch of the Royal Perth Hospital are presented.
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