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What is the correct procedure for obtaining a sterile urine sample from an existing indwelling catheter?

Answers:
you use an alcohol pad to cleanse the port, inject the port with a 5 cc syringe and aspirate urine, then pull out the syringe and squirt the urine into a sterile urine cup.viola!


prior to doing this you are to kink the tubing with a rubber band or such so urine can collect, but for about 30 min only or the urine could back up into bladder.

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