FOLEY/SAFE 2.0 - Catheter Fixation Device
Cathetrix
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The World's First Foley Catheter Stabiliser that actively prevents accidental extractions.
FOLEY/SAFE 2.0 prevents accidental urinary catheter extraction, thus avoiding possible damage to the bladder and urethra. If the Foley catheter is extracted with a force that could harm the patient, Foley/Safe will cut the sterile fluid tube and let the retention balloon deflate, permitting the catheter to slide out safely.
CATHETRIX’s flagship product, FOLY/SAFE 2.0, is the world’s first Foley catheter stabilizer which actively prevents possible damage to the bladder and urethra from accidental urinary catheter extraction.
FOLEY/SAFE 2.0 also prevents catheter dislodgement and minimizes movement, thus reducing the risk of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI).
CATHETRIX’s flagship product is the Foley/Safe 2.0 Catheter Securement Device, the world’s first Foley catheter stabilizer which actively prevents possible damage to the bladder and urethra from accidental urinary catheter extraction.
Foley/Safe 2.0 prevents accidental urinary catheter extraction, thus avoiding possible damage to the bladder and urethra.
Once the Foley catheter is pulled with a force that can harm the patient, Foley/Safe 2.0 will cut the sterile fluid tube and let the retention balloon deflate, permitting the catheter to slide out safely.
Foley/Safe 2.0 also prevents catheter dislodgement and minimizes movement, thus reducing the risk of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI).
Medical studies have shown that 11–17 percent of all catheters are unintentionally torn out and 5% of all urological catheters are traumatically pulled.
Some 25% of all hospitalized patients, as well as people confined to bed in hospice and nursing homes, have urinary catheters.
Many of these inpatients tend to extract their catheter tube, thereby causing themselves unnecessary pain, injury and increased risk of damage and infections.
Genitourinary trauma is quite often the result of an inflated balloon during accidental pulling of the Foley catheter. Any unintentional pulling may cause severe damage to the bladder or urethra.
Foley/Safe 2.0 safely prevents surgery and expensive hospitalization. The device, which was developed together with Jenko, has been patented and has received U.S. FDA and EU CE Mark clearances.
THE DANGERS OF TRAUMATIC PULL OUT
Medical studies have shown that 11–17 percent of all catheters are unintentionally torn out and 5% of all urological catheters are traumatically pulled.
Some 25% of all hospitalized patients, as well as people confined to bed in hospice and nursing homes, have urinary catheters. Many of these inpatients tend to extract their catheter tube, thereby causing themselves unnecessary pain, injury and increased risk of damage and infections.
These patients may be pre or post-operative patients, patients who cannot pass urine such as paraplegics, or ones who suffer from incontinence. After the catheter tube is inserted into the urethra and up into the bladder, a balloon is inflated in the bladder to anchor it. If the catheter is pulled out accidentally, or is yanked out by a disoriented patient, while the balloon is inflated- irreversible injury can result.
Genitourinary trauma is quite often the result of an inflated balloon during accidental pulling of the Foley catheter. Any unintentional pulling may cause severe damage to the bladder or urethra.
A catheterized hospital patient averages five ‘catheter days’. Traumatic extraction generally adds 0.5% ‘catheter days’ to a hospital stay.
Foley/Safe 2.0 increases patient safety offering an inexpensive, technologically sophisticated catheter add-on. The easy-to-use safety device is simply snapped onto any inserted urethral catheter tube.
If the catheter tube is pulled, the safety device instantly cuts completely through the catheter tube. The inflated balloon in the patient’s bladder deflates, and is safely removed, thus avoiding serious injury.