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Urinary catheters have been attributed to almost half of all healthcare-associated infections. Many catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) may be prevented by following recommended guidelines, which would save lives. This article illustrates the use of known guidelines for the prevention of CAUTIs in the oncology population.

Nitrofurazone-coated urinary catheter segments inhibited 51 (75%) of 70 urinary bacterial isolates from patients with indwelling catheters. Inhibition zones correlated significantly with the nitrofurazone MIC (r2 = 0.79, P = 0.0001). All strains except the Pseudomonas spp. were inhibited by < or = 64 micrograms of nitrofurazone per ml. MICs of nitrofurazone and nitrofurantoin correlated signifi...

A suprapubic catheter may be used to drain the bladder of urine as an alternative to an indwelling urethral catheter. It can be inserted as a temporary or permanent measure in patients with urinary dysfunction or if initial urethral catheter insertion or recatheterisation is problematic. This article discusses insertion of suprapubic catheters, management and care, including changing suprapubic...

Modern day health care has become synonymous with cutting-edge, high-tech medicine, which includes a large and growing number of invasive medical devices, especially in intensive care units. The most widely used of these devices--intravascular catheters of many types and urinary catheters--account for more than one half of all institutionally acquired infections. Growing knowledge of the pathog...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The importance of postoperative analgesia has increased over the years. Plexular catheters represent a good option for high quality analgesia with reduced systemic repercussions. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the incidence of side effects and complications in postoperative analgesia with plexular catheters and identify risk factors for bacterial co...

Introduction: Almost 80% of nosocomial urinary tract infections (UTIs) are due to catheterization. Catheter-associated UTI (CAUTI) is the primary source for colonization of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, and uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the most common causative bacteria. This study was conducted to determine the phylogenetic groups, and antibiotic resistance pattern as the two imp...

INTRODUCTION The importance of accidental catheter removal (ACR) lies in the complications caused by the removal itself and by catheter reinsertion. To the best of our knowledge, no studies have analyzed accidental removal of various types of catheters in the intensive care unit (ICU). The objective of the present study was to analyze the incidence of ACR for all types of catheters in the ICU. ...

Patients with neurogenic bladder and/or indwelling catheters are overtreated for urinary tract infection (UTI) due to the presence of asymptomatic bacteriuria (bacteria in urine). Colonizing bacteria in these patients often develop resistance to antibiotics, making treatment challenging if the patient develops an infection at a later point in time. Patients with indwelling chronic catheters oft...

Rejection of catheters is generally thought to be due to patients pulling out their catheters, but we found circumstantial evidence for this in only one third of cases. Some catheters with smaller balloons drop out spontaneously, perhaps owing to laxity of the pelvic floor or urethral dilatation caused by repeated catheterisation, and others are expelled forcibly, presumably owing to uninhibite...