Pragmatic and alternative use of a pigtail pleural drainage catheter as a suprapubic urinary catheter in the retrieval setting.

A man aged 52 years was retrieved from a rural hospital in South Australia following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He required a urinary catheter due to bladder distension and long retrieval time. It was not possible to insert a urinary catheter…

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