A specially designed Nelaton catheter is used, which does not have a balloon (Fig 1a). Patients may need to undertake IC for a number of reasons, including: Failure of the bladder outlet to open to ...

Intermittent catheterisation (IC) is the passing of a catheter (Fig 1) into the bladder to remove urine with the catheter then being immediately removed. Patients who need to undertake intermittent ...