The accurate diagnosis of urinary tract infection. in infancy and childhood based on examination of the urine is made difficult by the number of variables involved. These include the age and sex of the patient, method of collection of the urine, time interval between micturition and urine examination, and technique of examination employed. The method of collection of urine is most important and...

Purpose. To assess the risks and benefits of early urethral catheter removal following laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. Materials and Methods. Between June 2009 and April 2011, 114 patients underwent laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for clinically organ-confined prostate cancer. Candidates for early removal of the urethral catheter were selected intraoperatively on the basis of the integri...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a silver-alloy hydrogel catheter on symptomatic catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). DESIGN Multicenter before-after non-randomized cohort study. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Seven acute care hospitals ranging in size from 124 to 607 beds participated in this study. The study population included adult patients with a...

SummaryAim To evaluate the performance of a new catheter design based on different hydrodynamics aiming to reduce development biofilm, and compare it with conventional Foley (FC). Methods The proposed (NPD) is modification FC, asymmetric positioning balloon additional drainage holes allowing continuous urine complete voiding bladder. A first experiment was undertaken ...

BACKGROUND Despite the well-recognized role of urinary catheters in nosocomial urinary tract infections, data on risk factors associated with inappropriate urinary catheter use are scarce. METHODS A prospective review of electronic medical records of 436 patients admitted to an adult medical-surgical unit between October and December 2007 was performed to examine the appropriateness of urinar...

often when antibacterial treatment was successful than in patients where urinary infection persisted. Unfortunately, it was not always possible to decide whether the improvement of the anaemia resulted from the elimination of infection or from more intensive iron therapy. While the significance of iron deficiency in these cases remained obscure, there was little evidence to suggest that folic-a...

No urethral complications were found to have occurred in any of the 30 patients. No surgeries were required, and no incidents of false passages, meatitis or meatal stenosis were detected. Two patients experienced epidydimitis. In four patients who had signs of strictures at the outset of the study from previous use of an indwelling catheter, these signs subsided once CIC using LoFric was initia...

XIII. An Account of a fingular Cafe of Ifchuria, in a young Woman, which continued for more than three Tears; during which Time, if her Urine zvas not drawn off with the Catheter, Jhe frequently voided it by vomiting ; and, for the laft twenty Months, paffed much Gravel by the Catheter, as well as by vomiting, when the Ufe of that Injirument was omitted, or unfuccefsfully applied. To which are ...