Each facility should have written guidelines on the use, insertion, and maintenance of urinary catheters. These guidelines should specify the indications for urinary catheters and restrict their use ...

Are antimicrobial catheters necessary to control urinary tract infection? To answer this question, the investigators conducted a multicenter study involving more than 7000 patients who were randomly ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Catheter-associated UTIs (CA-UTIs) significantly increase patients’ risk of death, researchers have found. Investigators at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City used information from the ...

"First, electronic alerts do result in fewer catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Second, the design of the alerts is very important. By making the alert quicker and easier to use, we saw a ...

Patients in neurological or spinal intensive care units often have a high risk of UTIs owing to indwelling catheter use. Now, research shows that implementation of simple interventions can reduce the ...

BARCELONA—A single-use hydrophilic-coated polyvinyl chloride (PVC) catheter appears to be no more effective than a PVC multi-use catheter for preventing febrile urinary tract infection (UTI) in ...

Surgical teams at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, are decreasing the rate of urinary tract infection (UTI) in their institution by paying scrupulous attention to the use of catheters before ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make the following 10 recommendations to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. 1. Insert catheters only for appropriate indications. 2.

Using a “bundled” intervention approach has shown success in combating urinary tract infections in nursing homes, according to a recently published research review. Researchers with the University of ...

image: Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in ...

Urinary tract infections due to indwelling catheters are the fourth most common cause of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in the healthcare setting and account for greater than 12% of HAIs in the ...