OBJECTIVES To investigate the most common underlying organisms, and associated urological anomalies in children presenting with urinary tract infection (UTI). METHODS Retrospectively, all children with confirmed UTI between October 2013 and February 2014 were evaluated at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The electronic files of 279 children presenting with ...

Urinary tract infection is commoner in patients with spinal cord injuries because of incomplete bladder emptying and the use of catheters that can result in the introduction of bacteria into the bladder. 145 patients suffering from spinal cord injuries, admitted to the Institute for physical medicine and rehabilitation, Centre for paraplegia of the Clinical Centre of the University of Sarajevo,...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are prevalent in the children. Presentation of UTI vary children different ages. In infants, who cannot localize symptoms, can present with a fever whereas older urinary symptoms (dysuria, frequency, incontinence). It is important to establish clear diagnosis order treat and resolve infection antibiotics therapy prevent bacteremia, pyelonephritis, long-tern renal...

rates and residual bladder urine volume. These tests require urethral catheterization. The disadvantages of catheterization have been amply described (1,2) and justify the need to develop a method to evaluate the lower urinary tract without recourse to catheter ization. Mulrow and associates (3) used 131I-labeled diodrast to estimate residual bladder urine volume without catheterization. They a...

AIM To investigate incidence, reasons, risk factors and outcomes for inappropriate use of urinary catheters in hospitalized elderly patients. METHODS The prospective study enrolled 321 patients aged 65 years and older with a urinary catheter placed within 24 h of hospitalization. Collected data included characteristics of patients and catheter use, reasons for urinary catheter use, mortality,...

OBJECTIVES To describe the frequency and duration of perioperative catheter use and to determine the relationship between catheter use and postoperative outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Two thousand nine hundred sixty-five acute care US hospitals. PATIENTS Medicare inpatients (N = 35 904) undergoing major surgery (coronary artery bypass and other open-chest cardiac ope...

BACKGROUND Improper catheterization can lead to urethral injury. Yet research from four continents suggests training of junior doctors in catheterization is insufficient. European research suggests a majority of catheterization related morbidities occur when the procedure is performed by interns. METHODS To assess the knowledge and practices of medical interns relating to urethral catheteriza...

BACKGROUND The normal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level in patients with urethral catheterization is a controversy. We designed this study to investigate the effect of nontraumatic urethral catheterization without urinary retention on serum PSA. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy patients scheduled for urethral catheterization before elective surgeries were randomly selected and included in th...

such systems to reduce UTI risk. D espite remarkable progress in the devices and technology that support healthcare practices, little has changed about the design of the indwelling urinary catheter since it was introduced in the 1930s. However, ongoing changes in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services prospective payment system for inpatient services has focused considerable attention on...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse-driven indwelling urinary catheter removal protocol in an acute care setting. BACKGROUND The most common hospital-acquired infection is catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). These infections account for 40% of all hospital-acquired infections. Although indwelling urinary catheters may be a needed intervention, studies have demons...