Improving Urinary Catheters for Patients

This project, Improving Urinary Catheters For Patients, consists of three members: Keisha Noquiao, Clarabelle Garcia, and Jacqueline Orozco. Our focus for this project is on catheters; normally used for patients who are unable to release the toxins necessary. For some background history, urinary catheterization is when a tube is inserted through the urethra into the bladder and drained into a container to remove bacteria. This process is commonly avoided by doctors and traded out for alternatives due to all of the risks involved. The main goal for this project is to improve catheters to make them safer and better for patients and healthcare workers to use. Our team hopes to show how differently the catheter can affect people, and when it is best to be used. By improving the catheter’s design, the risk of infection could be reduced while also making the patient more comfortable. Netlogo, and possibly Python, will be used in the making of this project. Our data, including charts, tables and images, will be collected from verified online resources, valid sources of information, and interviews. The different variables that will be changed throughout this experiment will be age and health. Real people and animals will not be used in this project.