The T-SPeC® works amazingly well and was simple to use. I found the T-SPeC® created a faster, easier, and safer tract for suprapubic cystostomy catheter placement. It required less anesthesia when compared to other cystostomy kits I have used for more than 10 years. I had a lot of optimism for the T-SPeC® device when I first heard about an ‘inside-to-out’ cystostomy kit — T-SPeC® exceeded my expectations.
The device will play an important role in my practice to allow a safe and minimally invasive procedure to place a suprapubic catheter in my patients with urinary retention and incontinence. The current cystostomy kits use an ‘outside-to-in’ technique that does not always allow accurate placement of the catheter and has been shown to cause rare but serious complications such as small bowel perforation that can result in sepsis and even death. The T-SPeC® utilizes the safer and innovative passageway, ‘insideto-out’ technique, allowing reliable catheter placement and equally important — virtually eliminates the risk of small bowel injury.