My husband had a suprapublic catheter put in on April 5 at a urology center here in Omaha. He started bleeding and clotting real bad and he went into hospital April 7. While he was in the hospital they capped his suprapublic catheter and put a foley catheter in. He was discharged from the hospital April 22. Now his catheter needs to be changed. The Urology place gave instructions to our homecare agency nurse to take out the foley catheter permanently and change the suprapubic catheter. The nurse told us yesterday that when she changes his suprapublic catheter there will be clotting and bleeding with the suprapubic catheter. Is this true?
Something I have discovered is if your SP catheter is clogging up from sediment in urine, is changing to a silicone catheter and getting the 20 gauge size. I was having clogging problem with mine for 5 straight months until I changed to silicone type. Problem solved!
Thank you! Very helpful!!!
My husband had a suprapublic catheter put in on April 5 at a urology center here in Omaha. He started bleeding and clotting real bad and he went into hospital April 7. While he was in the hospital they capped his suprapublic catheter and put a foley catheter in. He was discharged from the hospital April 22. Now his catheter needs to be changed. The Urology place gave instructions to our homecare agency nurse to take out the foley catheter permanently and change the suprapubic catheter. The nurse told us yesterday that when she changes his suprapublic catheter there will be clotting and bleeding with the suprapubic catheter. Is this true?
Something I have discovered is if your SP catheter is clogging up from sediment in urine, is changing to a silicone catheter and getting the 20 gauge size. I was having clogging problem with mine for 5 straight months until I changed to silicone type. Problem solved!