Bladder Scan of Residual Urine With New Catheter
Bladder Scan of Residual Urine With New Catheter
Male intermittent catheters (ICs) range from 340-500 mm long, with the European standard
 minimum length being 360 mm for a catheter without a balloon and 275 mm for one with a
 balloon. This length is defined by hospital standards although it is known that the male
 urethra has an approximate maximum length of 29 cmA new intermittent catheter developed by
 Coloplast A/S is a 30-cm-long sterile, ready-to-use, hydrophilic-coated male catheter. There
 is a lack of clinical data documenting that male ICs that are shorter and more or less
 flexible than standard catheters can sufficiently empty the bladder of male subjects. This
 will be tested using ultrasound to measure residual urine in the bladder following
 catheterisation with new product and standard length catheter.
See brief summary
Inclusion Criteria:

 1. Subject is a male IC user able to self-catheterise

 2. Subject has used hydrophilic-coated ICs for at least 1 month

 3. Subject is at least 18 years old.

 4. Subject has provided informed consent.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 1. Subject has symptoms of UTI (ie, fever, autonomic dysreflexia, spasticity, discomfort
 or pain over the kidney or bladder, onset/increase in incontinence episodes, cloudy
 urine with increased odour, malaise, lethargy, or sense of unease).

 2. Subject has known abnormalities in the lower urinary tract.