Management of a Nondeflating Foley Urinary Catheter Balloon by Transrectal Centesis in a Dog
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To describe the management of a nondeflating urinary catheter balloon via transrectal centesis in a dog and to propose an algorithm for the nonsurgical management of this adverse event in dogs. CASE SUMMARY: A mature neutered male crossbreed dog presented with a <24-h history of acute paraplegia secondary to a T13-L1 hydrated nucleus pulposus extrusion. During placement of an indwelling urinary catheter, the Foley balloon reservoir was inadvertently inflated in the proximal urethra. Initial attempts to deflate the balloon through aspiration of the inflation channel, transection of the inflation channel proximal to the inflation valve, and insertion of the stylet into the inflation channel to remove potential obstructions were unsuccessful. The balloon reservoir was successfully deflated by transrectal centesis using a 22-gauge needle. No short- or long-term complications were associated with this procedure. NEW OR UNIQUE INFORMATION PROVIDED: Nondeflation is a relatively infrequent complication of urinary catheterization using a Foley catheter. Causes include faulty valve mechanisms, obstruction of the inflation channel, or crystallization of fluid within the balloon. This report describes the use of transrectal centesis to deflate a balloon reservoir lodged in the proximal urethra of a male dog. This technique has not previously been reported. An algorithm for the nonsurgical management of nondeflating Foley catheters in dogs is also proposed.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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