{"id":2853,"date":"2007-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t853b39|3"},"modified":"2023-11-10T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:05:38","slug":"tip-clean-intermittent-catheterization-853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/tip-clean-intermittent-catheterization-853","title":{"rendered":"Clean Intermittent Catheterization (CIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/853_39_tapp1_600.jpg\" alt=\"User inserts catheter. He holds the package (cartoon).\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">User inserts catheter. He holds the package. Illustration: Lars &#8216;Geson&#8217; Andersson<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Beskr\">Intermittent Self Catheterization (ISC) involves regularly draining the urinary bladder with a disposable catheter.<\/p>\n<p>Technique:<br \/>\nThe user soaks the catheter in water for about 30 seconds in its own package, then he connects the catheter to a urine bag. To avoid touching the catheter he opens the catheter package with his teeth on the other side as well and pulls back the package so that the catheter tip comes out. The catheter package serves as protection and he can insert the catheter without touching it.<\/p>\n<p>Catheter model: LoFric from Wellspect Healthcare<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkom\"><strong>Users comments<\/strong><br \/>\nNot having to touch the catheter improves hygiene during intermittent catheterization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tilv\"><strong>Made by<\/strong><br \/>\nWellspect, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellspect.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wellspect.us<\/a> (catheter), last checked June 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Bekostad\"><strong>Paid for by<\/strong><br \/>\nCounty council<\/p>\n<p class=\"idea\"><strong>Whose idea<\/strong><br \/>\nFriend of user<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/853_39_tapp2_600.jpg\" alt=\"User connects the catheter to the urine bag by holding the catheter and urine bag tube between the index and middle fingers of each hand (cartoon).\" width=\"600\" height=\"507\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">User connects the catheter and the urine bag. Illustration: Lars &#8216;Geson&#8217; Andersson<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/853_39_tappning3b_600.jpg\" alt=\"Catheter is soaked\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catheter is soaked<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technique for intermittent catheterization without having to touch the catheter, which provides better hygiene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":51535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[319],"tags":[471],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-about-toileting-19","tag-authors_v3","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/853_39_tapp1_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinalistips.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}