Cost-effectiveness of prophylactic antibiotic use to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections

Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

Urinary catheter placement is an extremely common medical intervention. It can be used either temporarily, for example to drain a full bladder, to monitor urine output or it can be indwelling for long term drainage. While urinary catheters are a safe medical practice, complications can and do arise from their use and can be a source of morbidity for hospital or nursing home residents. The term ...

[Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections].

With a share of 22.4%, nosocomial urinary tract infections (nUTIs) are among the most frequent infections acquired in hospitals, along with surgical site infections (24.7%), pneumonia (21.5%), clostridium difficile infections (6.6%) and primary sepsis (6%) 1. 80% of all nUTIs are associated with indwelling urinary catheters, with 12-16% of all hospitalised patients and up to 81.8% of all intens...

Antibiotic prophylaxis in catheter-associated urinary infections.

This study aimed to assess the usefulness of antibiotic prophylaxis with Levofloxacin (LVFX) in short and mediumterm catheterisations. This study was developed to evaluate and confirm the effectiveness and need for prophylaxis in preventing catheter-associated UTIs, using LVFX at a dose of 250 mg administered orally to patients who had been subjected to short and medium-term urinary bladder cat...

Reducing catheter associated urinary tract infections.

Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

2014 Update Author(s): Evelyn Lo, MD; Lindsay E. Nicolle, MD; Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH; Carolyn Gould, MD, MS; Lisa L. Maragakis, MD, MPH; Jennifer Meddings, MD, MSc; David A. Pegues, MD; Ann Marie Pettis, RN, BSN, CIC; Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH; Deborah S. Yokoe, MD, MPH Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 35, No. 5 (May 2014), pp. 464-479 Published by: The University of Chic...