difficult inserting foley

Wow, that is very strange. I don't have any suggestions for you, except that I would suspect that your pt just had some strange anatomical anomaly. What did you end up doing? It almost sounds like one would need a Urology consult for that one. The only other possibility is to use a smaller gage catheter?

I stumped!!

I work in a specialized home for mentally challanged, and she has down syndrome, however, I have never ran into this problem before with others with down syndrome. I am currently looking up any abnomilities in this area with down syndrome. I will try again tomorrow, if not I will have to call in her Doctor, who will probably call in someone else and then who knows.

It is a strange one.

Just had a thought, I will post this message on the specialty site for the Developmentally Delayed site.

Thanks

This needs to be reported to the MD as there may be an anatomy issue. No need to put the patient (and nurse!) thru that trauma again.

MickeyMouse pls post back to let us know the outcome :)

Let us know what happened...

When I was a student we ran into an elderly lady who had 2 meatus, and unfortunatly the first one was just a blind pouch to no where. The 2nd one was located further up and on the anterior wall of her lady parts. It was a nightmare.

~ BlueBug

I used to work in a home for mentally retarded, cerebral palsy, down's. I can tell you that there are rare anomolies such as a pt having 2 uteruses. you may need to have the MD or urology do it

when im in college i had a former classmate who got pregnant and eventually when she delivered her baby we found out that she got 2 lady partsl canal which are tight, not enought for the baby to pass by,, so the option is to do cs...

how fortunate was the guy with her... ehehe