Payal Patel, MD, Intermountain Health, is the lead author of new national updated recommendations for the use of indwelling urinary catheters in hospital patients.
The "Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections" document has been updated by the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections. It is sponsored by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology and developed by over 100 experts from various organizations.
Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters when no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections (UTIs) in healthcare settings, according to new recommendations published today in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. These settings include long-term care communities.
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 care hospitals, according to new recommendations developed by five medical societies and published today in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
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