What is a urine bag?

A urine bag is a sterile plastic bag for collecting urine. Indwelling catheterization is one of the most common and frequently applied nursing operations in order to accurately record urine volume and solve the patient's difficulty in urination, and the urine collection bag is a necessary item for indwelling catheterization and needs to be changed regularly. Retained catheterization can lead to a series of complications, especially urinary tract infections. Therefore, special care should be taken in their use.

This passage is going to talk about the followings of the urine bag:

1) Brief introduction of an urine bag

2) Change of urine bags and patient attention

3) Precautions for the use of urine bags

 

1) Brief introduction of a urine bag

Urine collection bag is a urine collection tool for some patients with urinary incontinence, paraplegia, long-term bedridden, and other urinary difficulties. It generally consists of is composed of plastic bag, drainage catheter, hanging ring, pagoda connector, urine sleeve, drainage tube, and guard plug. Gently cover the urinary stoma with the urinary collection cavity, rotate the urinary collection cavity and adjust it to the right angle and position, and fix it to the waist side with the waist strap of the urinary collection cavity to make it loose and tight and comfortable to wear.

Put on the shoulder type urinary storage bag strap, connect the suspension hole of urinary storage bag with the strap hook, adjust the length of the strap and the fatness of the strap to make the strap loose and tight and comfortable to wear, the bellows bend naturally and do not bear any tension, and the height of the urinary storage bag is moderate. Wearing finished, wear the outer clothing, you can engage in various activities like normal people.

 

2) Change of urine bags and patient attention

The urine bag catheter is very widely used in clinical practice. It can be divided into temporary as well as long-term retained catheterization. Care and precautions are mainly as follows.

Pay attention to local cleanliness, you can wipe the urethral opening with iodophor cotton ball to remove the secretion. Both the catheter and urine bag need to be changed regularly. The catheter is usually changed once a month and the urine bag needs to be changed once or twice a week. Remove the catheter on time. Surgical catheterization is usually removed 1-2 days after surgery for urinary retention, and catheterization is usually removed after 3-5 days. Let the patient usually drink more water, clip and open the catheter regularly, and train the bladder function.

 

3) Precautions for the use of urine bags

1. Keep the drainage flowing smoothly. Avoid pressure, twisting and blockage of the catheter.

2. Prevent retrograde infection. Keep the urethral orifice clean, clean the urethral orifice with 0.1% Neosporin solution twice a day, change the urine collection bag regularly every day, record the volume of urine, change the catheter once a week, no matter when, the drainage tube and urine collection bag should not be higher than the pubic symphysis, avoid urine reflux.

3. Encourage the patient to drink more water, change the lying position frequently, and perform bladder flushing promptly if urine is found to be cloudy, precipitated or crystallized. Check urine routine once a week.

4. Train bladder function. Intermittent blocked drainage can be used to fill and empty the bladder regularly and promote the recovery of bladder function.

5. When the patient leaves the bed for activity or examination, he can go with the urine bags. The method: fix the catheter in the lower abdomen; keep the urine bag below the pubic symphysis. The catheter can also be separated from the urine bag, and the end of the catheter can be wrapped with sterile gauze and folded back with adhesive tape and fixed to the lower abdomen; the open end of the urine bag can be wrapped with sterile gauze or set into a sterile test tube and fixed to the bed sheet. When the patient is lying in bed, the open ends of the two tubes are routinely disinfected and then connected.

 

 

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