Urinary catheter balloons should only be filled with water: Testing the myth

BJU International

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1693-1695

  Huang, James G ^a   Ooi, Jason ^a   Lawrentschuk, Nathan ^b,c   Chan, Steven T F ^a   Travis, Douglas ^a   Wong, Lih Ming ^a  

^a WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equipment failure; Glycine; Indwelling catheters; Sodium chloride; Urinary catheterization; Water

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BALLOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT TREATMENT; IMMERSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY CATHETER; URINE;

BALLOON DILATATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GLYCINE; MATERIALS TESTING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; WATER;

EID: 70449356955     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08672.x     Document Type: Article

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