The risk of intra-urethral Foley catheter balloon inflation in spinal cord-injured patients: Lessons learned from a retrospective case series

BACKGROUND: Inflating the balloon of Foley catheter in urethra is a complication of urethral catheterisation. We report five patients in whom this complication occurred because of unskilled catheterisation. Due to lack of awareness, the problem was not recognised promptly and patients came to harm....

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Autores principales: Subramanian, Vaidyanathan, Soni, Bakul M., Hughes, Peter L., Singh, Gurpreet, Oo, Tun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4875696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27213016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-016-0101-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4875696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27213016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-016-0101-1

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