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Measuring from a foley urometer

Jun 6, 201115 yr

When reading from a urometer for a foley catheter, to read it correctly you look at the bigger cannister? For instance, if the side cannister is filled at 50 ml and the bigger cannister is reading 100 ml the urine outout is 100. You don't dump the 50 ml from the side cannister into the bigger cannister and therefore have 150 as the bigger cannister begins reading at 60ml. Yes/No?

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Jun 6, 201115 yr

The big canister starts @ 60. Yes. What you see is what you get, no need to dump the little into the big.

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Jun 6, 201115 yr

Check your facility's policy. If I've had someone with a Urimeter it meant a close watch on output was necessary. Measuring from the large bag is pretty much guess work. We would check the smaller hard reservoir every hour, record what was in it and then empty it into the bag. We did not record measurements from the bag.That way we had an accurate output. If the patient doesn't need such close monitoring a regular foley bag rather than the more expensive Urimeter is more appropriate.

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Jun 6, 201115 yr

When reading from a urometer for a foley catheter, to read it correctly you look at the bigger cannister? For instance, if the side cannister is filled at 50 ml and the bigger cannister is reading 100 ml the urine outout is 100. You don't dump the 50 ml from the side cannister into the bigger cannister and therefore have 150 as the bigger cannister begins reading at 60ml. Yes/No?

You don't necessarily look at the bigger canister, you look at where the urine level is. For someone who is only putting out 40ml/hr the urine would stay in the smaller one because the level of the urine would be at 40 ml. In the smaller canister you can measure down to the ml. If you see urine in the bigger canister it is because the urine has spilled over the smaller one into the bigger one.

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Jun 6, 201115 yr

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when reading from a urometer for a foley catheter, to read it correctly you look at the bigger cannister? for instance, if the side cannister is filled at 50 ml and the bigger cannister is reading 100 ml the urine outout is 100. you don't dump the 50 ml from the side cannister into the bigger cannister and therefore have 150 as the bigger cannister begins reading at 60ml. yes/no?[/quote
how to measure output with foley urometer/urimeter chamber?
feb 02, 2010 03:50 pm written by sillyinscrubs | 2 comments
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reposted from micu/sicu forum:
i have a question about the collection chambers on the front of the foley bag. there are 2 chambers. when you are reading the hourly output, and it is more than the 50 cc in the smaller chamber, it spills over into the larger chamber. do you take the reading from the large chamber and add the 50 cc, or do you only take the measurement from the larger chamber? any help would be appreciated!
https://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/how-measure-output-454020.html
almost the exact question......
a urimeter is applied for hourly urines for inadequate output. you should intiate with an empty container then measure the hourly outputs from there. the urine arrives first into the smaller or graduated/marked "little" container. measure urine every hour emptying the smaller container every hour into the main bag to restart at zero every hour. add each hourly urine to obtain the total output for your shift. if the urine output is greater that the smaller graduated container can contain every hour.... the need to have more expensive urometer isn't necessary. you can also dump the entire foley both containers every hour if in doubt but the again it was futile to add the uirmeter to the patients closed collection system
therefor you measure the urine from the graduated container and "dump" the urine into the larger foley bag every hour