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It depends on how long is long term. If it is long enough your bladder will become smaller and you will become dependent on the foley catheter. This is not necessarily a bad thing. It just depends on what the alternatives are.
Evidence based practice now says no you do not need to test inflate the balloon.
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A Foley catheter is a tube that is put into the bladder. The point of this is to allow urine to come out of the bladder when a patient is unable to go to the toilet themselves.
A foley catheter is put into the bladder to make sure the bladder stays small to reduce the risk of nicking it during surgery.
no you don't need foley catheter
Normal body function resumes shortly after a foley catheter is removed.
The compound noun 'Foley catheter' can be considered a COMMON NOUN based on the fact the noun 'Foley' is functioning as an attributive noun (acting as an adjective), describing the common noun 'catheter'. This compound noun is a word for ANY of a certain type of catheter, not a word for a specific, individual catheter.
The largest catheter ever to be made are the Foley catheter, made from natural or silicone rubber.
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A catheter is a tube inserted into the urethra to collect urine from a person's bladder. To insert a Foley catheter, have the patient lie down and, using clean hands inside sterile gloves, apply lubricant to the catheter and insert it into the patient's urethra. Be sure to push the catheter in until urine can be seen within the tube. Connect the tube to a urine collection bag, and then the procedure is complete.
As a last resort, you may cut the catheter just above the inflation port. The water in the balloon will escape from the cut end. Gently pull on the catheter. It should slide out easily.
A tube inserted into the bladder after a urethra gauge is used to measure the circumference of the urethra. Once the measurement is obtained, the appropriate sized urinary catheter (foley catheter) is inserted thru the urethra up the urinary tract to the bladder. A balloon is inflated usually via a 10 cc syringe and the balloon acts to hold the foley catheter in place.