The usually sterile urinary tract can also become colonized in an ascending manner from the drainage bag or the catheter-bag junction, up through the lumen of the catheter, although these routes are ...

Amsterdam, April 25, 2016 - A new infection alert system in catheters could prevent serious infections in millions of hospital patients worldwide. The system, detailed in a new paper in Biosensors and ...

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 ...

Urinary catheters were on my radar twice last week. The first involved a late-night trip to the vet with an unhappy cat. Said cat, Eli, spent about 36 hours hooked up to a urinary catheter before ...

A nationwide survey shows very few hospitals are aggressively combating catheter-associated urinary tract infections. In the survey by the University of Michigan Health System and the Veterans Affairs ...

When you enter a hospital, the last thing you want is to end up sicker than you started. But that happens all too frequently in U.S. hospitals, often because of preventable problems. A leading cause: ...

Tiny spikes shaped like shark fins could cut the number of urinary tract infections experienced by patients fitted with catheters. These flexible hollow tubes, which are made of plastic, drain urine ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — One in four Americans in the hospital right now has a urinary catheter. One percent of them will get a urinary tract infection from that catheter. All of those will require ...

A woman who was severely disabled died after staff at a nursing home left a blocked catheter in her, causing severe infection and sepsis. Sandra Miller, who had Down’s Syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, ...

A new infection alert system in catheters could prevent serious infections in millions of hospital patients worldwide. The system, detailed in a new paper in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, changes the ...