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See also: Catheter
What is Self Catheterization? Intermittent self catheterization is the temporary placement of a catheter (tube) to remove urine from the body. This is done by placing the catheter through the urethra (the tube that leads from the bladder to the outside opening) to empty the bladder.
Reasons Taken
67 patients in the community are having or have had Self Catheterization.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Bladder problems | 48 | 71% |
| Urinary retention | 6 | 8% |
| disease-related symptoms | 3 | 4% |
| Neurogenic Bladder | 3 | 4% |
| General health | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 1% |
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 7 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 100% | 4 |
|---|
Bladder problems
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 0% | 0 |
| Mild | 14% | 1 |
| None | 86% | 6 |
Top reported side-effects include: Increaded risk of UTI, discomfort
Summary results are based on 7 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 7)
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- cureseeker
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: moderate
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by cureseeker
Aug 18, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Bladder problems
- Advice/Tips
- It's not as bad as you think it will be - the anticipation of it is much worse than the actual doing of it.
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- gkygrl
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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by gkygrl
Dec 06, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Neurogenic Bladder
- Advice/Tips
- SIC (self-intermittent catheterization) is really no big deal at all. I perchance you receive Medicare, there is a new ruling that states that we who SIC are entitles to a new catheter each time. Woo Hoo. I just received approval for this and was really happy about it. This takes the out of pocket cost away for me. If you have Medicare, Google Medicare and Intermittent catheters.
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