Hi! I'm Randy Golden from Medical Technologies of Georgia and I'm here
today to introduce you to the EZ-Advancer.
MTG's closed-system intermittent catheter packaged in options
both the clinical standard size
and the mini pack version for people on the go.
So let's take a look at what's inside the package.
Let's open it up here and show everybody.
Inside of each kit
we have a pair of cuffed folded latex free gloves that are
we call wallet pack
left and right set that aside for the time being
You get an under pad in case there's any spillage. There shouldn't be but just in case we always
have that in there as well
There's a gauze tissue for clean up afterwards.
This product has BZK Swab sticks and I'll show those in a second
when I do my presentation with the anatomical model.
and then this is the fourteen french catheter.
Straighten it out and show everybody.
A closed-system catheter by design,
will never see the outside world during the entire procedure. The bag does a
couple things.
It protects the sterility of the catheter and it's also going to catch the fluid once
the urine starts to flow.
The catheter is pre lubricated so that step has been eliminated
I'm going to take this cap off
and expose the introducer tip below
and i'll talk about this in the second as well.
The introducer tip is designed to bypass the distal urethra
where a vast majority of urethral bacteria are located.
So, what I would like to do at this point is just show everybody exactly how the introducer tip
works and I'll
take the cap off and
expose the tip below. I'm going to use this gauze tissue to clean off the lubricant
that's still on the tip
so you can see it a little bit more clearly
and now I'm going to pry the
tip off
of the bag.
You wouldn't do this but I just want to show everybody how soft this is
and then what we're going to do is, the tip
here you can see is really soft, very pliable.
And I'll place it
back over the catheter
and you can see that when the catheter is inserted within the introducer tip
it becomes firm
so it'll go into the urethra more easily.
MTG's catheter eyelids,
or drainage holes, are fire polished
so they're less likely to cause irritation as the catheter winds its way through the urethra.
we also have a conical tip
which helps the catheter pass through tight spots along the way.
Okay, so at this point what I want to do is show everybody exactly how to catheterize
and you'll see what it looks like in your lap just like it does in mine.
I'm going to use the anatomical model here.
First thing I am going to do is I'm gonna cup the penis with the last three fingers on my left hand
I'm right handed, so I'm going to use my left hand to stabilize the penis. I'm going to hold it at about
a forty five degree angle from my body.
I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna take each one of the swap sticks
go over the urethral opening and around the glans, or the head of the penis
one time.
with each swab
Don't want to re-trace the same skin with the same swab stick
and of course before I catheterize, I
always wash my hands.
Okay, so there's the third swab stick over the urethral opening
and again
I'm not gonna let go of the penis now with my left hand, but I'm going to with my
right, reach over and grab the catheter.
and I'm going to take the catheter,
and the introducer tip and feed them both into the urethra just like
so
straighten the bag out
and again everything is being held in place with my left hand.
With my right hand now,
I'm going to begin advancing the catheter of one to one and a half inches
at a time.
Push it in,
hold everything stable, and pull the bag back.
Push it in,
hold everything stay with my left, pull the bag with my right.
And we keep feeding the catheter in. Now,
let's say that we hit a point where the catheter won't easily pass any
further.
It might be at my prostate
that be the case and it may be a tight spot
rather than feed the catheter and force it in, I'm going to take myself a deep breath
Relax
the prostate should relax as well and then I can feed the catheter one more push. I
should see urine at this point.
Now, I'm going to give the catheter one more push
Once a see urine flow, one more push to get the catheter right in the middle of the
bladder.
Urine will begin to flow. Now,
as the urine begins to flow, I'm going to use my
right hand to hold onto the bag. We have a finger hole in the corner of the top of the
bag
that allows me, it gives me something to hang onto here. Okay,
once urine stops flowing, I'm going to pull the catheter out
about one inch
and I'm going to see if I get any more fluid
And once I see that I have absolute finished voiding the bladder,
I'm going to pull the catheter out, I'm going to let go of the
body now with my left hand and I'm going to reach back and get my gauze tissue.
It's in the kit there
and as that catheter leaves the body, I'm going to use that gauze tissue to catch the
eyes, so we don't have any spillage and just
clamp the eyes off with my left hand, while
holding the bag with my right.
So, the last step
is tearing the bag.
There's a perforation mark
where you want to start, tear that across
and then just be careful and tear down into the bag
just like that
turn the bag upside down and pour the urine off into the toilet.
To learn more details about MTG EZ-Advancer catheters, please visit our
website
MedTechGA.com, where you can request samples of either the standard
pack or mini pack versions.