tips and tricks

Friendly Foley

Mohammed Basha, MD
Gainesville, Fla

Volume 49 - Issue 10 - October 2009

When patients experience discomfort with Foley catheterization, fill a 2-mL syringe with lidocaine jelly and inject this (without using the needle!) through the urethral meatus and into the urethra. Wait several minutes, then insert the catheter.

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