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Living with a urinary catheter

  • Overview
  • Urinary catheterisation and why it’s used
    • What is urinary catheterisation?
    • Reasons for needing a long-term indwelling catheter
  • Types of catheters
    • Condom catheters
    • What is intermittent self catheterisation (ISC) and why is it used?
    • Indwelling catheters: urethral catheters
    • Indwelling catheters: suprapubic catheters
    • Using a Mitrofanoff for intermittent self catheterisation
  • Catheter issues
    • Feelings about having an indwelling catheter
    • Advantages of an indwelling catheter
    • Intermittent self catheterisation (ISC): being taught how to do it
    • Intermittent self catheterisation (ISC): doing it
    • Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
    • Blockages
    • Bladder washouts
    • Leaking
    • Drainage bags
    • Catheter valves
    • Looking after the catheter and catheter site
    • Drinking lots of fluids
    • Catheter changes
    • Bladder spasms
    • Getting catheter equipment
    • The catheter of the future: what catheter users say they'd like
  • Formal and informal care
    • Perceptions of health professionals and health care
    • Having a professional carer
    • Informal care: caring for a relative with a long-term catheter
  • Every day life with a catheter
    • Going out locally
    • Travelling long distance
    • Sex and intimate relationships
    • Work and finances
  • Information and support
    • Finding information about urinary catheters
    • Sources of support
  • Messages to others
    • Practical tips and messages to catheter users
  • People's Profiles
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    • 41-60
    • 61-80
    • over 80
    • Carers
    • A doctor speaks
  • Resources and Information
  • Credits

Living with a urinary catheter

Profiles - A doctor speaks

Mr Roger Feneley

Mr Roger Feneley is an Emeritus Consultant Urologist to the North Bristol NHS Trust and Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England. He founded the BioMed Healthcare Technology Centre to improve the care of patients with urinary incontinence and initiated the 21st Century Catheter Project with the Bladder and Bowel Foundation.

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