Rapid Administration of Medication and Fluids
The Needle-Free Alternative to the Oral Route
Patented and FDA-cleared, the Macy Catheter® provides dignified and painless access to the rectal route for medication and fluid administration.
The catheter provides a safer and more comfortable method of medication administration than other options like IV (intravenous) and SubQ (subcutaneous).
The Macy Catheter helps nurses use routine oral medications already at the bedside to provide complex symptom relief within a single, short visit.
While most commonly used in hospice and palliative care, the Macy Catheter is also used to give medications and fluids to patients in home health, skilled nursing and long-term care facilities, and hospitals.
Why choose the Macy Catheter?
It’s effective.
The catheter facilitates rapid symptom control. Patients experience relief 10-15 minutes after administration.
It’s comfortable and dignified.
The catheter is small and soft. It’s accessed at the patient’s thigh or abdomen after the initial, painless insertion.
It’s simple.
The catheter makes it easy to administer medications already at the bedside.
Quicker & More Effective than SubQ
How a hospice reduced their injectable use by 80% and simultaneously improved time to palliation:
When Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton received notice that they had only four days’ supply of injectable medications remaining, they responded to the crisis by implementing the Macy Catheter.
What was first intended to be a short term solution became a standard of practice.
Dr. Wendy Schmitz, MD, Vice President of Medical Care at Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton, quickly discovered that medication administration via the Macy Catheter controls pain faster than when medications are administered subcutaneously. She also found that the device allowed clinicians at her practice to effectively control pain with fewer dose adjustments.
Because the Macy Catheter facilitated quicker, more effective symptom control at her practice, Dr. Schmitz also observed a decrease in nursing time.
Ohio’s Hospice staff members explain how switching their standard practice from IV/SubQ to medication administration via the Macy Catheter has improved quality of life for both their patients and their staff.
She decided to keep using the catheter after the shortage passed, and established use of the Macy Catheter as a standard of practice.