Identify 3 possible complications associated with catheter insertion

• Inability to catheterise

• Urethral Injury - by inflating balloon before insuring correct catheter placement in the Bladder

• Infection

• Psychological Trauma

• Haemorrhage - trauma sustained during insertion or balloon inflation

• False Passage - by injury to the urethral wall during insertion

• Urethral Strictures - following damage to the urethra - long term problem

• Paraphimosis due to failure to return foreskin to normal position following catheter