[Bruno Matos]

We're having a lot of problems in our PICU, related with bladder catheters.
Our CV surgeon prefer to use an aspiration cath instead foleycaths in our babies. Of course it's much more difficult to manage a aspiration cath on the bladder (attachement, localization, danger of perforation !!) than a foleycath!!

How do you make this at your places of work ?

[anndor]

Hi Bruno
What do you mean by aspiration cath? Do you mean n/g feeding tubes? We very occasionally use a feeding tube if the baby is very small, as our foley caths smallest size is 6Fr. If we need a 5 Fr. we use a feeding tube. we hate using them for the reasons you have mentioned, ie. they are difficult to secure, and are too hard on the urethra. Our surgeons don't like them either, and we try hard to avoid them, removing them at the first opportunity. Sounds like your surgeons need to get with the program!