Your health care provider may recommend that you use a catheter if you have:
- Urinary incontinence (leaking urine or being unable to control when you urinate)
- Urinary retention (being unable to empty your bladder when you need to)
- Surgery on the prostate or genitals.
What are the indications of catheterisation?
Therapeutic indications include the following :
- Acute urinary retention (eg, benign prostatic hypertrophy, blood clots)
- Chronic obstruction that causes hydronephrosis.
- Initiation of continuous bladder irrigation.
- Intermittent decompression for neurogenic bladder.
- Hygienic care of bedridden patients.
What patient needs catheterization?
A urinary catheter tube drains urine from your bladder. You may need a catheter because you have urinary incontinence (leakage), urinary retention (not being able to urinate), prostate problems, or surgery that made it necessary. Clean intermittent catheterization can be done using clean techniques.
