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Severe Ventral Erosion of Penis Caused by Indwelling Urethral Catheter and Inflation of Foley Balloon in Urethra—Need to Create List of “Never Events in Spinal Cord Injury” in order to Prevent These Complications from Happening in Paraplegic and Tetraplegic Patients
Joint Authors
Vaidyanathan, Subramanian
Soni, Bakul M.
Hughes, Peter L.
Oo, Tun
Singh, Gurpreet
Source
Issue
Vol. 2010, Issue 2010 (31 Dec. 2010), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2010-06-27
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Never Events are serious, largely preventable patient safety incidents that should not occur if the available preventative measures have been implemented.
We propose that a list of “Never Events” is created for spinal cord injury patients in order to improve the quality of care.
To begin with, following two preventable complications related to management of neuropathic bladder may be included in this list of “Never Events.” (i) Severe ventral erosion of glans penis and penile shaft caused by indwelling urethral catheter; (ii) incorrect placement of a Foley catheter leading to inflation of Foley balloon in urethra.
If a Never Event occurs, health professionals should report the incident through hospital risk management system to National Patient Safety Agency's Reporting and Learning System, communicate with the patient, family, and their carer as soon as possible about the incident, undertake a comprehensive root cause analysis of what went wrong, how, and why, and implement the changes that have been identified and agreed following the root cause analysis.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Vaidyanathan, Subramanian& Soni, Bakul M.& Hughes, Peter L.& Singh, Gurpreet& Oo, Tun. 2010. Severe Ventral Erosion of Penis Caused by Indwelling Urethral Catheter and Inflation of Foley Balloon in Urethra—Need to Create List of “Never Events in Spinal Cord Injury” in order to Prevent These Complications from Happening in Paraplegic and Tetraplegic Patients. Advances in Urology،Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473405
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Vaidyanathan, Subramanian…[et al.]. Severe Ventral Erosion of Penis Caused by Indwelling Urethral Catheter and Inflation of Foley Balloon in Urethra—Need to Create List of “Never Events in Spinal Cord Injury” in order to Prevent These Complications from Happening in Paraplegic and Tetraplegic Patients. Advances in Urology No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473405
American Medical Association (AMA)
Vaidyanathan, Subramanian& Soni, Bakul M.& Hughes, Peter L.& Singh, Gurpreet& Oo, Tun. Severe Ventral Erosion of Penis Caused by Indwelling Urethral Catheter and Inflation of Foley Balloon in Urethra—Need to Create List of “Never Events in Spinal Cord Injury” in order to Prevent These Complications from Happening in Paraplegic and Tetraplegic Patients. Advances in Urology. 2010. Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-473405
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-473405