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SUPRAPUBIC BLADDER DRAINAGE FOLLOWING GYNAECOLOGICAL SURGERY
Author(s) -
Morton David C.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb129823.x
Subject(s) - medicine , foley , foley catheter , surgery , drainage , catheter , urinary catheterization , incidence (geometry) , general surgery , ecology , physics , optics , biology
When bladder drainage is required following gynæcological surgery, the suprapubic route is preferred to the transurethral, in order to lessen the patient's discomfort, to ease the burden on the nursing staff and to reduce the incidence and severity of resultant urinary infection. The writer presents his experience in the use of a small‐gauge suprapubic tube, which he prefers to a larger suprapubic Foley catheter.