Podcast #193: The Quick Wee
Apr 22, 2017•2 min
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Episode description
Author: JP Brewer M.D.
Educational Pearls:
- The "Quick Wee" was a method to get urine out of infants who need to have a UA in the Emergency Department.
- A randomized-controlled experiment was done with 350 infants between the ages of 1 to 12 months.
- The "Quick Wee" method is taking a sterile saline gauze with cool saline and rubbing it over the suprapubic abdomen for five minutes. The results were significant, with 31% in the treatment group voided after five minutes, 12% in the control group voided after five minutes.
References: http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1341
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