VaPro Pocket™ Coude No Touch Intermittent Catheter combines protection, discretion, and comfort in a compact, portable design. Offering 100% No Touch Protection, it features both a protective tip and sleeve that work together to prevent contamination and reduce the risk of urinary tract infections. The Coudé tip is specially designed to help navigate around tight bends or obstructions in the urethra, making it ideal for users with an enlarged prostate or similar conditions. Its convenient pocket-size packaging ensures easy transport and discreet use anytime, anywhere.
Ready to use straight from the package, this catheter requires no additional preparation and features smooth, rounded eyelets for comfortable insertion and removal. The protective sleeve allows secure handling without touching the catheter surface, while the finger-hole packaging design enables easy opening.
Features:
- 100% No Touch Protection: Protective tip and sleeve help reduce contamination risk during insertion.
- Coudé Tip Design: Helps maneuver around tight bends and obstructions in the urethra.
- Ideal for Male Users: Especially suited for those with an enlarged prostate or similar conditions.
- Protective Sleeve: Allows gripping anywhere without touching the catheter for improved hygiene.
- Smooth Rounded Eyelets: Ensure gentle insertion and withdrawal for user comfort.
- Ready to Use: Pre-lubricated and requires no additional setup.
- Compact Packaging: Pocket-sized design allows discreet portability and convenience.
- Easy-Open Finger Hole: Makes the packaging simple to open and handle.
- Latex- and Phthalate-Free: Made without natural rubber latex or phthalates for added safety.
Indication For Use:
This intermittent catheter is a flexible tubular device that is inserted through the urethra by male, female and pediatric patients who need to drain urine from the bladder.
Directions for Use:
- Wash your hands as advised by your healthcare practitioner. Position yourself to carry out intermittent catheterization. Manipulate your clothing to access your genitalia.
- To open package, pull finger hole toward you and all the way down.
- Remove the catheter from the package. Leave pack on the lap, sink or other flat surface. Lay catheter on opened package.
- Hold the penis with your non-dominant hand and don’t let go until you have finished the procedure. Pull back foreskin (if present) and cleanse the glans and opening of urethra as instructed by your healthcare practitioner.
- Remove the cap from the protective tip of catheter.
- Hold the catheter in one hand, and with the other hand advance the catheter forward until tip of the catheter fills the protective tip, taking care that the catheter does not protrude from the tip. Grasp catheter below protective tip plate.
- If using a Coudé tip catheter, insert catheter as instructed by your healthcare practitioner. Using your forefinger and thumb of your nondominant hand squeeze penis gently to open the urethral opening. With your dominant hand, insert the protective tip until the plate comes in contact with urethral opening.
- With the penis stretched and in upright position, insert the catheter forward until urine starts to flow. Once urine flow has stopped, slowly withdraw the catheter. If urine flows again, pause until urine stops. After you’re sure the bladder is empty, remove the catheter completely. Reposition the foreskin (if present).
- Catheter may be disposed of in a waste bin. Do not flush down toilet.
- Wash your hands.
Warnings:
- Do not use if package is damaged or opened.
- To help reduce the potential for infection and/or other complications, do not reuse.
- If discomfort or any sign of trauma occurs, discontinue use immediately and consult your healthcare practitioner
Precautions:
Please consult your healthcare practitioner before using this product if any of the following conditions are present:
- Severed urethra
- Unexplained urethral bleeding
- Pronounced stricture
- False passage
- Urethritis – inflammation of the urethra
- Prostatitis – inflammation of the prostate gland
- Epididymitis – inflammation of the epididymis (testicle tube)
Self-catheterization should follow the plan of care and advice given by your healthcare practitioner and be carried out only in accordance with the instructions for use provided. Because catheterization frequency varies by person, the recommended frequency of your catheterization should be provided by your healthcare practitioner. For any other questions about your catheterization, please contact your healthcare practitioner
Notes:
- Store boxes in a flat position and at normal room temperature.
- Contact a healthcare practitioner to help with continence care products