David Shelton

Charleston Southern travels to Furman, with both teams in need of a victory after disappointing season openers against The Citadel and Ole Miss, respectively .

Northwood Academy moved to 5-0, and Timberland, James Island and Fort Dorchester collected wins in high school football on Friday night, plus state scores.

Quarterback Rob McCoy threw two touchdown passes and Charleston Southern rebounded from a season-opening loss to knock off FCS No. 15 Furman

Quarterback Chalmers Ballard of Lucy Beckham heads this week's high school football honor roll after passing for 317 yards and four touchdowns against St. James.

With no fans on hand to witness a dramatic comeback, Bishop England scored three touchdowns in the final eight minutes to take a 21-14 victory over Philip Simmons at John Cantey Stadium on Daniel Island.

After pulling off an upset at nationally ranked Furman, Charleston Southern seeks to keep the momentum against another strong FCS program at Richmond.

After pulling off a nice road upset at Furman last Saturday, the Charleston Southern football team ran out of magic in Saturday’s game at Richmond.

By David Shelton and Rob Gantt Special to The Post and Courier

Condom catheters are also called external urinary collection devices to collect urine and monitor urine output in hospitalized and other patients with urinary incontinence. They play an important role in reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections by using invasive indwelling catheters that are placed inside the bladder. Currently, male external catheters come with or without adhesives. Major problems with current condom catheters are finding the right size to fit, excessive slippage needing to replace too many, urine leak, skin irritation, and damage. In some cases, it's a common practice to wrap adhesive tape around the catheter and penis to keep the catheter in place which can cause skin injury. The Acanthus condom catheter is an expandable silicone male external catheter designed and developed to reduce excessive catheter slippage and keep the catheter longer. It works by applying silicone adhesive to the inner catheter wall just below the catheter rim and applying gentle pressure after the placement. It can be adjusted after the placement and can be kept in place by applying gentle pressure around the catheter to prevent slippage. After laboratory testing of the catheter showed it was able to withstand 250% more pressure and 187% higher tensile forces, we have retrospectively reviewed a nursing survey of 14 hospitalized patients using the Acanthus condom catheter for urinary drainage. The mean age was 89 years. A total of 55 evaluations were collected, of which 46 were day shift and nine were night shift responses for a total of 44 catheter days. Results showed that the catheter was easy to use (100%). There was no skin irritation or damage during the application or removal (100%). The catheter was able to drain urine and stayed in place most of the time (89%) except in a few instances it came out, especially during the night shift, but the nurse was able to place it back. There was one instance of urine leak (1.8%). Nurses felt that the catheter was better than existing products in 95% of responses. In conclusion, the Acanthus condom catheter was easy to use, can be reused for up to three days, and was safe on the skin; most importantly, nurses were able to adjust the catheter when they noticed it to be slipping and kept it in place using gentle finger pressure or adding few additional drops of silicone adhesive on the inner catheter wall below the rim and applying brief pressure around the catheter. One size (medium-large) fits most of the patients in the study due to elasticity and stretch dimensions, which eliminated the problem of finding the right size to use.