Everything you need to know about intermittent catheterisation and how to train patients in its use This article is the fourth in a six-part series on urinary catheters. It gives a step-by-step guide ...

Intermittent catheterization is a medical technique used to help empty the bladder. A catheter can be passed through the urethra or through a surgical channel in the skin to the bladder, after which ...

THE indwelling urinary catheter is an essential part of modern medical care. It is widely used to give temporary relief of anatomic or physiologic urinary obstruction, facilitate surgical repair of ...

A retroactive study found no differences in urinary complications between patients who used a Foley catheter and patients who did not. Hip and knee replacement surgery can be performed safely without ...

Urinary catheters are required for nearly every surgical procedure. However, a major challenge for the health care industry is predicting who may develop catheter-associated urinary tract infections ...

The best way to understand catheters is to understand how your bladder works. Your kidneys make urine and send it to your bladder. When everything’s working well, your bladder stores the urine until ...

Akira Kuriyama, Tadaaki Takada, Hiromasa Irie, Masaaki Sakuraya, Kohta Katayama, Daisuke Kawakami, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Karen E. Fowler, Yasuharu Tokuda, Sanjay Saint ...

Inappropriate use of urinary catheters seems to persist, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers conducted a prospective review of 436 patients ...

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control, researchers reported on the execution of two electronic healthcare record (EHR) interventions for reducing urine culture (UC) ...