Abstract
ATHER frequently it becomes necessary for R a urologist to leave a ureteral catheter in situ for drainage of a kidney pelvis after it has been placed there, sometimes with considerable difficulty, through cystoscopic manipulation. Maintaining this ureteral catheter in position and providing a satisfactory method of collecting the urine from it has always presented a problem to the patient, to the doctor and to the nurse. In the past, various ingenious methods have been tried. The specimen bottle with the perforated milk bottle cap, which the patient carefully baIanced between his legs until he went to sleep and then tipped the whole thing over, was definitely not popular with the nursing staff. Again, a male urinal could be maintained between the legs but this necessitated the patient staying awake and always lying flat on his back. At other times a rather Iarge piece of rubber tubing with a glass adapter tip has been taped to the patient’s leg and the ureteral catheter inserted into the glass tip and maintained with adhesive. I have never seen one of these which did not leak a
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