ArticleCureus2022
An Easy Solution for Difficult Urethral Catheter: Three-Way Urethral Catheter Insertion Using a Guidewire Technique.
Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Urethral catheter insertion is a skill taught to all medical students but often not practised for a multitude of reasons. The difficult catheter can be a clinical nightmare for the junior doctor, especially on call, and can lead to significant mortality and morbidity with suboptimal repeated attempts. The incorporation of a soft-tipped hydrophilic guidewire technique for the insertion of a two-way urethral catheter has been described in the literature and has the potential to reduce the morbidity and mortality of patients by making the insertion of a catheter less traumatic. Here, we propose and describe the insertion of a three-way urethral catheter, performed using the technique employed for the insertion of a two-way urinary catheter via the use of a hydrophilic guidewire, with similar outcomes. A hydrophilic soft-tipped guidewire to insert a three-way urethral catheter can be used in the wards, in the emergency department, and in a theatre setting. The district hospital in which this method was employed demonstrated a 100% success rate in the insertion of a urethral catheter (N = 15), with 26% of cases (four patients out of 15) having a three-way urethral catheter inserted using the soft-tipped hydrophilic guidewire method. Follow-ups of these patients showed that there were no complications or adverse effects experienced by the patients. The use of a soft-tipped guidewire approach to insert a difficult urethral catheter can reduce the financial burden on the healthcare system by eliminating costs due to harm/trauma caused by repeated unsuccessful urethral catheter attempts or those attempts that have been performed suboptimally and have led to potential patient harm. The use of a hydrophilic guidewire-assisted technique to insert a three-way urinary catheter is a safe and easy option for those who have had repeated unsuccessful attempts. The hydrophilic guidewire approach has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with urethral catheterisation and improve patient safety.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.