The first of two articles on urinary catheterisation explains the procedure for children and young people, including the reasons, positioning, and safety considerations. Abstract Catheter insertion is ...

A urinary catheter is a hollow, partially flexible tube that collects urine from the bladder and leads to a drainage bag. They come in many sizes and types. Catheters may be necessary in cases when ...

A doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is working with a team of nurse and physician leaders to examine the use of urinary catheters, and related urinary tract infections, in ...

Recent study findings show postoperative location, urinary catheter insertion and use of an implantable device could be risk factors for surgical site infection among pediatric patients, according to ...

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 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 ...

Luja Coloplast's new intermittent catheter Luja™ addresses important risk factors for urinary tract infections, a significant burden for people using intermittent catheters as well as healthcare ...

A Penn Medicine team has found that targeted automated alerts in electronic health records significantly reduce urinary tract infections in hospital patients with urinary catheters. In addition, when ...

UroShield is an ultrasound device designed to reduce the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (UTI) by reducing bacterial colonisation and biofilm formation on indwelling urinary ...