This animation shows how a routine medical procedure facilitates direct drainage of a female's urinary bladder. A urinary catheter, also known as a Foley catheter, is a small, flexible tube that can be inserted through the urethra, a tube that carries urine from the bladder allowing urine to drain out of the body. Catheters may be inserted as an in-and-out procedure for immediate drainage, left in with a self-retaining device for short-term drainage (as during surgery), or left indwelling for long-term drainage in patients with chronic urinary retention. An indwelling Foley catheter remains in place continuously as shown in the video. It keeps the catheter from slipping out by having a balloon on one end that is inflated with sterile water after that end is inside the bladder. For more information about custom surgical 3D animations, please visit https://www.amerra.com/. Watch additional medical animations: Craniectomy brain surgery - 3D animation: • Craniectomy brain surgery - 3D animation Accessing an implantable port training - 3D animation: • Accessing an implantable port training - 3... Open Suctioning with a Tracheostomy Tube - 3D animation: • Open Suctioning with a Tracheostomy Tube -... Ventriculostomy Brain Surgery - 3d animation: • Ventriculostomy Brain Surgery - 3d animation Suctioning the endotracheal tube - medical animation: • Suctioning the endotracheal tube - medical... Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) - 3D animation: • Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS)... How to insert a nasogastric tube for NG intubation - 3d animation: • How to insert a nasogastric tube for NG in... Oral airway insertion - oropharyngeal airway technique - 3D animation: • Oral airway insertion - oropharyngeal airw... Nasotracheal suctioning (NTS) - 3D animation: • Nasotracheal suctioning (NTS) - 3D animation Learn about hemorrhoids with #3d #animation: • Learn about hemorrhoids with #3d #animation LASIK eye surgery - 3D animation: • LASIK eye surgery - 3D animation CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation - 3D animation: • CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation - 3D ani... What are warts (HPV)? - 3D animation: • What are warts (HPV)? - 3D animation How Macular Degeneration Affects Your Vision - 3D scientific animation: • How Macular Degeneration Affects Your Visi... NeoGraft hair transplant procedure – animation: • NeoGraft hair transplant procedure - 3d an...