The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make the following 10 recommendations to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. 1. Insert catheters only for appropriate indications. 2.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved DefenCath ® (taurolidine and heparin) catheter lock solution to reduce the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) in adult ...

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 ...

The high incidence, mortality, morbidity and cost associated with CRBSIs have created considerable interest by healthcare providers, insurers, regulators, and patient advocates in further reducing the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes the first global guidelines to prevent the occurrence of bloodstream and other infections caused by use of catheters placed in minor blood vessels during ...

Washington State University and Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an electrochemical catheter hub that could someday help prevent deadly central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) ...

A survey conducted by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence discovered a concerning amount of variety in how clinicians manage catheters placed in the arteries of intensive care unit ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2009;7(9):1081-1086. In a prospective study to delineate epidemiology risk factors and microbiology of infections in burned children, it was found that the nine patients ...

UroShield™ reduced Colony Forming Units (CFU) count from >100,000 to 10,000 CFU or less in 25 of 29 patients in the treatment group No reported infections in the treatment group versus 27% symptomatic ...

World Health Organisation (WHO) has published the first global guidelines to prevent bloodstream and other infections caused by the use of catheters placed in minor blood vessels during medical ...

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