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Clinical trialNCT05785858UnknownObservational

FLUME Catheter Comfort Study

SponsorThe Flume Catheter Company LtdEnrollment41Bladder Pain and DiscomfortBladder SpasmChronic Urinary CatheterUrinary CathetersUrinary RetentionUrine Leakage
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The Flume catheter is a commercially available (FDA 510(k) cleared) urethral catheter with an innovative catheter design. The traditional Foley catheter design includes a protruding tip with drainage holes. The protruding tip may contribute to patient discomfort, pain and bladder spasms. The Flume catheter is designed such that the balloon envelops the tip on inflation, thus eliminating the protruding catheter tip, while the drainage holes are inset low in the balloon, providing protection to the bladder lining. Based on the change in design, the hypothesis of this observational cohort study is the Flume catheter will have better patient comfort scores (using validated patient reported outcomes measures) when compared to a traditional catheter.

Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Penn State Department of Urology

    Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

    Tullika Garg, MD
    Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
1 Jun 2023
Primary completion
30 Mar 2024
Completion
30 Mar 2024
Last update posted
13 Sept 2023
Registered enrollment
41
Registry id
NCT05785858

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.