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Catheter balloons

What do you use to inflate catheter balloons?

What do you use to inflate catheter balloons? 18 members have participated

  1. 1. What do you use to inflate catheter balloons?

    • normal saline
      16%
      3
    • sterile water
      22%
      4
    • whatever's handy
      0%
      0
    • whatever came in the kit
      61%
      11
    • something else
      0%
      0

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The reason that I ask is that in school I was taught to only use sterile water. The rationale was that saline could allow crystals to form in the balloon or port that will prevent deflation of the balloon later. Have you ever seen/heard of this happening?

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