Fifty-seven percent of patients who received a urinary catheter while hospitalized said the catheter resulted in at least one complication, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found. The ...

Among over 450 such patients, no significant difference was observed in the rate of PUR for those who received an intraoperative catheter placement versus those who did not (9.6% vs 8.5%, respectively ...

Radical cystectomy (RC) with subsequent urinary diversion has been assessed to be the most difficult surgical procedure in the field of urology. No randomized trials have been performed to compare the ...

A man died from blood poisoning after his penis filled with blood due to a misplaced catheter. His family has filed a lawsuit seeking damages for the pain and anguish the man experienced. There are ...

MURRAY, Utah (ABC4 Utah) – A physician at Intermountain Health is leading a national effort to reduce one of the most common types of infections that occur in hospital patients to improve care and ...

Jessica Nguyen, a fourth-year student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, received a letter of distinction for a research project that looked at urinary catheter complications. Jessica ...

Joint replacement surgery can be performed safely without using a Foley urinary catheter, which for years has been used as a part of the standard practice for this type of surgery. Joint replacement ...

CompactCath launched its intermittent urinary catheter on Monday that addresses some problems patients have while self-catheterizing during their daily routines. The catheter was FDA-cleared in 2014.

THE ever-increasing number of case reports of renal complications in sulfonamide drug therapy indicates that neither the mechanism of their production nor the means of preventing them is yet ...