Urine Sample from Foley

I have gone to different hospitals and they all have different procedures. I was told in school, clamp the foley and use a syringe with needle to pierce the tubing. The tubing should seal itself.

But in the hospital I worked the usual procedure was to empty the bag and wait about 30ml and then collect the new urine.

Hope this helps,

You would never pierce the actual tubing, as that would create an entry for microorganisms - I've never heard of tubing that would seal itsself. THere should however, be a port along the tubing that you would swab with alcohol and aspirate the urine from with a needle/syringe (after clamping for a time).

clamp tubing, aspirate from port.
i agree about not piercing the tubing.

leslie

We were taught to clamp and draw it from the port. As often as the bag is opened to empty...it would not be a clean place to obtain a sample from.

Especially because urine can be sitting in the bag for hours sometimes. That's definitely long enought for things to fester. As for the self-sealing tubing, could you be getting the foley tubing mixed up with chest tube tubing? The tubing on a chest tube is self sealing and you can get samples from piercing with a needle.

our ports are supposed to be used for gettnig samples, but once a needle goes in there, the blasted things leak forever. I usually just get sterile, disconnect from the drainage bag and use a toomey syringe to pull from the catheter.

Are we the only ones that have needleless foley ports? I just screw a syringe on to the closest port to the patient and aspirate what is in the tubing. No needles required

Use alcohol prep to prep port (close to connection site "Foley-bag") withdraw 20 ml''s from port, port is self sealfing, ideally
Diana