Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An intervention in a general medicine ward found that a medical directive allowing nurses to remove urinary ...

Toronto-based Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre recently published a medical directive and infographic for nurses on the early removal of urinary catheters from medical ward patients in JAMA Internal ...

A study published in American Journal of Infection Control details the determinants of urinary catheter removal in pediatric intensive care unit patients. Researchers conducted a cross-sectional ...

This prospective study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of catheter removal on POD 2 versus POD 4 after LRP and its impact on urinary continence outcomes. In this study, 94.7 % of men ...

Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute ...

image: Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in ...

Urinary catheters are often left in place longer than needed, and new research shows that reminder systems that encourage hospital staff to remove catheters promptly can reduce the rate of ...

What is the best time of day to remove a urinary catheter? What do you think? Traditionally patients would have a trail removal of urinary catheters at 6am. This allows time during the day for the ...

Investigators sought to determine whether a new protocol for urine sampling and testing lowers rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Protocolized urine sampling and testing ...

To prospectively investigate the effects on urinary tract infection (UTI) of indwelling urinary catheter placement during cesarean delivery. There were no significant differences between the two ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Poiesis Medical announced its Duette Dual Balloon Indwelling Urinary Catheter has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient, Inc. the largest ...

Between March 2012 and September 2014, 125 patients with clinically localized prostate cancer underwent LRP performed by the same experienced surgeon (≥300 LRP cases at study initiation) at Keio ...