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 ...

In the morning, the user disconnects the drainage tube from their catheter bag, pouch or APD waste drain and flushes it through with 100 ml of water containing a disinfectant (U‑Drain supplies ...

The usually sterile urinary tract can also become colonized in an ascending manner from the drainage bag or the catheter-bag junction, up through the lumen of the catheter, although these routes ...