Electrical cord inside the Foley, pt from ICU

[Asystole RN]

I have a pt from an ICU of an unfamiliar facility that has an indwelling Foley catheter with an electrical cord embedded in one of the ports. The terminal end of the electrical cord looks like the male jack of stereo headphones. The cord appears to be embedded in a hard plastic plug that was inserted into the secondary port of the Foley.

What is this cord for? I am guessing a temperature probe, indwelling real-time UA analyzer?

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Ding-ding-ding! We have a winnah! It's a temp probe. Bladder temp has been shown to correlate closely to core temperature and is more accurate than oral or rectal or axillary. If he's out of ICU he probably doesn't need his temp THAT closely obtained (they would have used for doing cardiac outputs with a Swan-Ganz cathter in the pulmonary artery). You can ignore it. Unless they give you the gadget to use to take his temp :}

[Asystole RN]

Ding-ding-ding! We have a winnah! It's a temp probe. Bladder temp has been shown to correlate closely to core temperature and is more accurate than oral or rectal or axillary. If he's out of ICU he probably doesn't need his temp THAT closely obtained (they would have used for doing cardiac outputs with a Swan-Ganz cathter in the pulmonary artery). You can ignore it. Unless they give you the gadget to use to take his temp :}

Thanks!

I connected my phone to the jack and played music, after auscultating all over her ABD/lady parts and hearing no music I figured it must be somethig like a tempt probe or UA analyzer.

Thanks!

[A&OxNone, MSN, RN]

Haha, yeah, we have those. We call them Criticore Cath's (I'm not completely sure I spelled that correctly.) But it does look like a headphone jack! lol

[Asystole RN]

Just kidding about hooking her Foley up to my phone.

To be honest that is what I told the oncomming nurse though, I told her it was music therapy for the bladder to stimulate it. I told her if she plugged it into a radio and listened to her lady parts she could hear it.

Oh man that nurse was furious! "Its a what!?! What a waste of money blah blah blah, if they think I am going to play music to someone's lady parts they have another thing coming, blah blah blah!"

I love being a nurse!

[kakamegamama]

sounds like your replacement had little sense of humor.......

[Hygiene Queen]

Holy cow! That was hilarious!

I would have split a gut over that nurse's humorless reaction!

Nothing funnier than a humorless person being had!

lmbfbo!

[Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN]

Headphone jack. Definitely.

[MassED, BSN, RN]

temperature sensing foley sounds like.

[diva rn, BSN, RN]

What type if music did her lady parts like? I highly recommend the new Lady GaGa cd...it's quite uplifting:)

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

I have a pt from an ICU of an unfamiliar facility that has an indwelling Foley catheter with an electrical cord embedded in one of the ports. The terminal end of the electrical cord looks like the male jack of stereo headphones. The cord appears to be embedded in a hard plastic plug that was inserted into the secondary port of the Foley.

What is this cord for? I am guessing a temperature probe, indwelling real-time UA analyzer, or headphones for her lady parts?

temperature probe

[Flare, ASN, BSN]

Thanks!

I connected my phone to the jack and played music, after auscultating all over her ABD/lady parts and hearing no music I figured it must be somethig like a tempt probe or UA analyzer.

Thanks!

that made me lolol!