Method for attaching a portable urinary system

In an improved method for attaching to an external urinary organ of a male patient a urinary incontinence device characterized by a reservoir comprising a urinal bag adapted to be attached to the patient's leg, and a flexible receiver for the patient's urinary organ comprising a thin rubber sheath, and a flexible conduit extended between the receiver and the reservoir, the steps comprising:

• A. inserting the patient's urinary organ into the sheath;
• B. folding in half a 4 .times. 4 12 ply gauze pad and applying the folded pad to the external surface of the sheath in an overlapping and circumscribing relation therewith for thus forming a pressure distribution pad near the base of the organ comprising multiple overlapping layers of surgical gauze;
• C. applying to the pressure distribution pad, in a circumscribing relationship therewith a nonadhesive elastomeric band of woven fabric having opposite halves of a Velcro fastener attached thereto at the opposite ends thereof;
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• D. releasably uniting the opposite end portions of said band by joining the opposite halves of the Velcro fasteners.