Engineering out the risk for infection with urinary catheters.

By D. Maki, P. Tambyah. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2001

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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is the most common nosocomial infection. Each year, more than 1 million patients in U.S. acute-care hospitals and extended-care facilities acquire such an infection; the risk with short-term catheterization is 5% per day. CAUTI is the second most common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection, and studies suggest that patients with CAUTI have an increased institutional death rate, unrelated to the development of urosepsis. Novel urinary catheters impregnated with nitrofurazone or minocycline and rifampin or coated with a silver alloy-hydrogel exhibit antiinfective surface activity that significantly reduces the risk of CAUTI for short-term catheterizations not exceeding 2-3 weeks.

Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Epidemiology, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Complicated Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Due to Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis (2008, background): “These devices should be promptly removed after their required use as to reduce the risk of infection (236).”
• Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (2010, background): “is a predictor for an increased risk of CA-bacteriuria [31].”
• The epidemiology of urinary tract infection (2010, background): “Indeed, asymptomatic bacteriuria is almost universal in individuals catheterized for any length of time, with an incidence of significant bacteriuria following catheterization of 5% per day”