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Step-by-step FoleyManometer LV Instructions for Use

Initial set-up and preparations (use aseptic techniques):

• Open the FoleyManometer pouch and close the tube clamp.
• Place the urine collection device under the patient's bladder and tape the  drainage tube to the bed sheet as shown on the drawing.
• Insert the FoleyManometer between catheter and drainage device.
• Prime the FoleyManometer with 20ml of sterile saline through its needle-free injection/sampling port. Prime only once i.e. at initial set-up, or subsequently to remove any air in the manometer tube.

Pvesical Monitoring

• Place the "0 mmHg" mark of the manometer tube at the symph. pubis level and elevate the filter vertically above the patient.
• Open clamp, and read Pvesical (end-expiration value) when the meniscus has stabilized.
• Close clamp and place the FoleyManometer in its drainage position.

NB:

• Prime only once i.e. at initial set-up, or subsequently to remove any air in the manometer tube which should always be fluid filled.
• Slow descent (>20 - 30 seconds) of the meniscus during a Pvesical determination suggests a blocked or kinked Foley catheter.
• Urine sampling from the needle-free port is facilitated by temporarily opening the red clamp. Remember to close clamp afterwards.
• Avoid a U-bend of the large urimeter drainage tube (which will impede urine drainage).
• Replace the FoleyManometer whenever the Foley catheter or the urine collection device is replaced. Do not use the FoleyManometer for more than 7 days.
  
  
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