 [ Symptoms ] my mother underwent an aortic aneurysm repair still has catheter my aunt died of septic poisoning due to a similar event [ Disease ] hi keeping the catheter for over a month is not required actually for a aortic aneurysm repair it should be out forever maximum 8 days after the surgical procedure at this point do catheter clamping every 3 hourly so as to train the bladder and try getting it removed as soon as possible keeping it for longer periods of time will cause sepsis as you said thanks