Has anyone ever heard of this? Can you give me some information on it if you have.

[nursecheryl]

After being off for a one week vacation, I went to visit a new paient in his home when he verb that urine was leaking from his urinary catheter. The plan was for him to have a suprapubic placed the next day. I looked to see what was going on and noticed that the member was split in half like a hotdog bun and the catheter was sitting in the middle of this. I asked him how long it was like this and he said 3 years. The patient care giver said this was correct. I asked how it happened and neither one was sure but the patient verb a catheter caused it. Has anyone ever heard of this and what causes it to happen. There was no documentation in the chart and his regular nurse is now on vacation and I'm unable to ask. The reason he is my patient now is because he is on IV antibiotics and I'm one of the IV nurses for my agency. Would appreciate any information on this from anyone who has ever heard of such a problem.

[DelGR]

Same here, catheter erosion from long-term indwelling foley catheters.

[Rustyhammer]

Ive seen it a couple of times with LTC, long term cath pts.

It didn't seem to be much of a bother to them.

-Russell

[KaraLea, LVN]

I have seen it before also, in a LTC patient who had long term indwelling cath. Pt also had reoccurent infections and whenever he had another infection, he would get extremely confused and start pulling on catheter, causing further splitting of the member. Doc said this was from erosion and the pulling combined.