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Catching Pee in the ED In this Heartbeat we go over two alternatives to cathing that infant in your ED.  If you had an infant who needed to be cathed, ever seen an infant cathed, or even heard a child cathed, you know it is less than fun. Here are two different, published methods that we attempted, back to back, on an infant…then we ended up doing the cath anyway! Join the conversation on Social Media @empulsepodcast or at ucdavisem.com Host: Dr. Julia Magaña, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UC Davis. Guest: Keyon Mitchell, UC Davis Medical School Graduate Class of 2018. Resources: Hall-million S, Howard PK. Does Suprapubic Stimulation in Infants Facilitate Collection of a Clean Catch Urine Specimen? Adv Emerg Nurs J. 2017 Oct/Dec;39(4):236-239. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29095174 Kaufman J, Tosif S, Fitzpatrick P, Hopper SM, Bryant PA, Donath SM, Babi FE. Quick Wee: a novel non-invasive urine collection method. Emerg Med J. 2017 jan;34(1):63-64. https://www.ncbi.nlm.n