The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides this website as an auxiliary resource for the primary care of patients with spinal cord injury.The contents of this ...

The new intermittent catheter Luja™ addresses important risk factors for urinary tract infections, a significant burden for people using intermittent catheters as well as healthcare systems as a whole ...

Study design: Literature review to evaluate the practical techniques used for intermittent catheterization (IC) and intermittent self-catheterization (ISC). Objectives: To ascertain the requirements ...

Coloplast A/S is about to launch a new single-use male intermittent catheter featuring new technology designed to reduce the risk of urinary tract infections (UTI). “The Luja device, with its ...

A urinary catheter is a medical device used to empty the bladder when a patient is unable to do so naturally. Catheters usually have a drainage bag to capture the urine. For bedridden patients, the ...

Intermittent catheterization is a medical technique used to help empty the bladder. A catheter can be passed through the urethra or through a surgical channel in the skin to the bladder, after which ...

Hollister's sustained advocacy challenged these barriers head-on. For over fifty years, restrictive policy forced people with SCI covered by Medicare to suffer multiple UTIs before qualifying for ...

A urinary catheter is a flexible tube for draining urine from the bladder. It may be necessary for a person to use a urinary catheter if they have difficulty passing urine naturally. Share on ...

The medical technologies advisory committee considered evidence on additional features of intermittent urethral catheters for chronic incomplete bladder emptying in adults from several sources. The ...

The technology identified for this assessment is single-use and sterile intermittent urethral catheters for bladder drainage. Intermittent catheters are used for catheterisation for medical bladder ...