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Aiding decision-making in urinary catheter placement
Photo credit: Dialysis Technician Salary Anything that assists clinical staff in making the decision as to which device to use when considering an indwelling urinary catheter is to be welcomed and the...
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Excluding Funguria from CAUTI or “How to effortlessly reduce HAI-rates”
According to Dicks et al. (ICHE 2015;36:467-9) the presence of fungi in urine rarely represents true infection. The authors state, that excluding yeast from catheter-associated UTI surveillance...
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Tubular Bells
Picture courtesy of Justin Cellini Bells have a certain resonance for me. When they toll, people listen as they are normally of significance. I have just heard one. I have been waiting from this paper...
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I’ll take the tube.. out!
A few papers on the use of urinary catheters have caught my eye recently. It’s a subject close to my heart and was the subject of my eponymous lecture at the Infection Prevention 2013 meeting in...
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Are we passing too much CAUTI?
We have blogged before how CAUTI is rather ‘unloved’ as an HCAI prevention target. CLABSI reduction, on the other hand, is all the rage. Now, there is a key reason why this makes sense: outcome! A...
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