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- Object Number 988.1.24
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- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Quebec, Municipality - Hull
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Medical and psychological tools and equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Materials Rubber
- Person / Institution Associated party, Laporte, GertrudeAssociated institution, L'Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur
- Measurements Length 42.0 cm, Outside Diameter 0.5 cm
- Related activity Nursing
- Caption Caring for catheter
- Additional Information The glass, metallic, or rubber catheter may be rendered thoroughly sterile by first washing with soap and cold water and then boiling in a 1 per cent. solution of carbonate of soda for five minutes; it is then laid in a clean basin containing a warm solution of boric acid, where it remains until it is needed. [Robb, Isabel Hampton. "Nursing: its principles and practice; for hospital and private use." 7th ed. Toronto: Hartz. p.168]
- Caption Catherization
- Additional Information Catherization.- This is a procedure which should be characterized by the greatest possible care about surgical cleanliness. The mucous membrane of the bladder is easily infected, and the suffering from such an infection is intense. Moreover, when once the bladder has been the seat of an infection, it rarely recovers its normal condition but is sensitive to any irritation which may occur./ In getting ready to catherize, move the bedside table near enough to be easily reached (it should be at the right side of the bed unless you can work equally well from both sides); set on it a basin of solution for sponging (boric or bichloride 1-5000 are commonly used); put into the solution some sterile cotton sponges; have two catheters, preferably of glass boiled and left in the boiling basin, set near by; have at hand an open package of sponges in case you need extra ones; see that the light is good and that it falls from below directly upon the vulva./ Prepare the patient by placing her flat upon the back with knees drawn up. Cover each leg separately as for a douche. Protect the chest with an extra blanket, leaving the lower edge so that it can be pushed up by the elbow. Remove any vaginal dressing. Place on the bed between the patient's thighs a urinal or rather flat basin to receive the urine. If the urine is to be drawn into a sterile bottle, this may be in a basin on the bedside table./ Scrub the hands and arms half-way to the elbows, paying special attention to the nails. Sponge the outside of the vulva wiping always down, toward the rectum. Open the labia gently with the fingers of the left hand and sponge thoroughly, using a fresh sponge for each stroke. Separate the inner labia and using a sponge made pointed by twisting with the fingers, sponge out the meatus. (The meatus will be found in the flat, triangular space in the anterior vaginal wall about an inch above the vaginal outlet.) Place a small sponge just below it, and with the fingers which hold the labia still in position, pick up the catheter with the right hand and gently insert it. It should slip in with almost no effort; if it does not go in easily, change the direction a little and try again; if any obstruction is encountered, go for experienced help, as damage may be done by attempting to force it. If the catheter should touch the bedding or slip into the vagina lay it aside and take another; if the same thing happens to the second, you must re-boil them before it is safe to proceed./ As soon as the catheter is in the bladder, the urine will begin to flow. You may know when the entire amount has been drawn by the slight sediment or light bits of epithelium which almost invariably appear. If there seems to be more urine in the bladder, push the catheter in slightly or pull it out a trifle. Light pressure over the bladder sometimes aids in emptying it./ When the bladder is empty, put the finger over the open end of the catheter to keep it from dripping, and quickly withdraw it. Sponge about the meatus, remove the receptacle containing urine, and make the patient comfortable. [Goodnow, Minnie. "First-year nursing: a textbook for pupils during their first year of hospital work." 3rd ed. Philadelphia: W.B.Saunders, 1923, pp 249-250]
- Caption Passing the catheter
- Additional Information Passing the Catheter.- To do this, wipe over the mouth of the urethra with a cotton-wool wipe, wrung out in corrosive sublimate solution (1-1,000). Opening the lips of the vulva so as to expose the mouth of the urethra with the fingers of your left hand, you pass the female metal catheter (sterilized by boiling for five minutes) with your right hand. You hold it at the further end, so as not to touch the part of the catheter that enters the bladder, nor must you let it touch anything but the cleansed urethral orifice. The catheter is curved, so that it will pass under the arch of the pubes into the bladder, and this you will find it readily does unless the child's head is nearly born. If you find difficulty you should desist rather than use force, but you will seldom have difficulty, unless, as I say, you try to pass it when the child's head is so low that it will soon be born. Pass it between the pains. If you pass it into the vagina by mistake, reboil it before you pass into the urethra...[Wrench, Guy Theodore. "Rotunda midwifery for nurses and midwives." London: Frowde, 1908, p.95-96]