Or she might have to deal with an anesthetic emergency, leaving the surgical site open, draining urine into the abdomen, becoming contaminated.

Mr. Reagan has a catheter, or tube, in place to drain urine from his bladder.

Catheters are tubes that drain urine straight out of the bladder.

Catheter use: A catheter is a thin tube used to drain urine from the body, often after surgery.

All patients are instructed how to drain urine from the bladder, if necessary.

A catheter is a tube that can be inserted through the urethra into the bladder to drain urine.

May have his or her kidney function checked by having a tube (catheter) placed in the bladder to drain urine into a collection bag.

A tube to drain urine out of the body (bladder catheterization) is usually needed.

From beneath the sheet a cathe er drained clear urine into a plastic collecting system.

Then, as now, a catheter was a thin tube inserted into a patient's urethra in order to drain urine from the bladder.