3 PURPOSE To provide guidance relating to the teaching and performing of intermittent catheterisation in order to maximise patient safety and comfort. Intended audience These guidelines and procedures are aimed at all healthcare professionals involved with teaching and performing intermittent catheterisation in hospitals and communities across Europe. Scope of guidelines The guidelines have been developed for nurse practitioners, continence nurses, and other nursing staff (referred to below as healthcare professionals) who practice and teach catheterisation and selfcatheterization to children and their parents/caregivers. For clarity, we will only use the word parents. For clarity, we have restricted the guidelines to catheterisation and self-catheterization via the urethra in children from birth to 18 years of age. Update of the guideline In 2016, this guideline was accepted by the ESPUN and published on the website of the ESPU(N) (https://www.espu.org/e-books/CIC_guidelines) Officially, these guidelines need to be updated every 2-5 years. Unfortunately, there was a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All changes or new insights will be added with the year of the update to the 2016 guideline. When referring the guideline of 2016 will be the official guideline, added with the year of the latest update. Sustainability Nowadays, there is a need to invest in sustainability; in the production of catheters, there is already attention to more environmentally friendly products. However, there is an enormous waste of products. For the future, we recommend research on the reuse of biomedical products.
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