BACKGROUND Care for patients with indwelling urinary catheter is one of the most important factors in preventing problems associated with indwelling urinary catheters. Caregiver education about caring of indwelling urinary catheters is important the same as patient education to prevent urinary catheters problems. METHODS A pre test post test control group design was used with nursing students...

OBJECTIVE to seek the best evidence available in the literature concerning the knowledge produced and related to the techniques of intermittent and indwelling urinary catheterization, so as to place the nursing care given to patients submitted to urinary catheterization on a scientific foundation and to prevent urinary tract infections. METHOD the literature search was undertaken in the Pubme...

A large number of hospitalized patients have an indwelling urinary tract catheter (IUC) placed at some time during their hospital stay and may suffer from catheter-associated urinary tract infections, the leading cause of nosocomial infections. Here we investigated the prevalence of uropathogens associated with catheter-associated urinary tract infections and assessed the resistances of these p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence, etiology and risk factors of nosocomial urinary tract infections (nUTI) in a second level Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective study of 104 patients admitted to the PICU with a length of stay of more than 48 hours was carried out over a one year period (January to December 2009) to study the incidence and risk factors o...

Patients 218 women who were >55 years of age and living in a private residence and had involuntary urine loss >2 times/week of >1 g/24 hours; symptoms of stress, urge, or mixed incontinence; and no bacteria in their urine. Patients with bladder cancer or kidney disease, an indwelling urinary catheter, residual urine of >100 cc, or need for a caregiver were excluded. 178 patients (82%) (mean age...

Catheter-associated complications are common, expensive, and often preventable by reducing unnecessary catheter usage. These complications range from most common nosocomial infection to uncommon conditions such as urethral diverticula and ischemic necrosis of the penis. Often, removal of a single known essential cause may be sufficient to prevent a disease. This review raises issues associated ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to compare the costs and effects of management of intractable urinary incontinence by urinary catheterisation or incontinence pads. DESIGN This was a prospective, randomised study comparing catheterisation with pads, supplemented by additional data collected from patients with chronic indwelling catheters. Main outcome measures were costs of equipment, nursing time...

BACKGROUND Traditional practice after vaginal hysterectomy was to keep the vaginal pack and urinary catheter for 24 hours post operatively. But there were studies that prolonged cathterisation was associated with urinary infection. So this study was conducted to compare the post operative outcome when the urinary catheter and vaginal pack were removed after 3 hours and after 24 hours after surg...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CA-UTI) is a relatively common infection, especially among older people with long-term indwelling urethral catheter. The term CA-UTI is used to refer to symptomatic urinary tract infection in individuals with indwelling catheters [1]. In general, less than 30 days with an indwelling urinary catheter is considered short term while 30 days or more is d...

To cite: Meddings J. BMJ Qual Saf 2013;22:967–971. In most hospitals, four steps are required to remove a urinary catheter: the physician recognises the patient has a catheter in place; the physician realises the catheter is no longer necessary; the order is written to remove the catheter; and the nurse removes the catheter. Interventions to prompt removal of unnecessary urinary catheters by ex...