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Effect of Urinary Catheter Replacement before Urine Specimen Collection on Clinical Outcomes among Critically Ill Patients [PDF]

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Health Care
Background: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are common healthcare-associated infections in critically ill patients with indwelling urinary catheters.
Amal Nabil EL-Sayied Abboud   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms as Diagnostic Clues in Parkinsonism: A Practical Framework for Neurologists

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are among the most prevalent nonmotor complaints across the parkinsonian spectrum, yet they remain underutilized as diagnostic and management signals in neurology practice. Although prior reviews have characterized disease‐specific patterns of urinary dysfunction, and recent guidelines address ...
Saar Anis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Implementing a quality improvement project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) can extend a patient\u27s hospital stay by two days and increase the cost of their care. The complications associated with indwelling urinary catheter and the increases in hospital-acquired infections
Gudino, Chemain
core   +1 more source

Urinary tract infections are common and have an impact on performance in elite wheelchair athletes: a cross-sectional study of self-reported data

open access: yesSwiss Medical Weekly
STUDY AIMS: Wheelchair athletes may be at risk of urinary tract infections, especially those with spinal cord injury. A urinary tract infection can lead to a loss of training hours and reduced performance in athletes.
Anneke Hertig-Godeschalk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emergencies in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

open access: yesMuscle &Nerve, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Emergencies are frequent in people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (pALS), especially as the disease progresses, and can necessitate urgent evaluation and intervention. Progressive weakness in ALS inevitably increases fall risk, making discussion of fall prevention strategies integral to caring for pALS.
S. Pinar Uysal   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fascial Mid‐Urethral Sling or Artificial Urinary Sphincter in Women With Neurological Diseases, a Multicenter Study

open access: yesNeurourology and Urodynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Achieving continence in patients with neurogenic bladder is a difficult goal especially when stress urinary incontinence (SUI) due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency is involved. Two techniques are commonly used in that setting, but they have never been directly compared: the artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) and the fascial ...
Alicia Blondeau   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions and strategies to prevent catheter‐associated urinary tract infections with short‐term indwelling urinary catheters in hospitalized patients: An integrative review

open access: yes, 2020
Aim: To explore interventions and strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in hospitalized patients with a short-term indwelling urinary catheter.
Yu, Shuhui   +7 more
core   +1 more source

PREVENTION OF CATHETER-ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTION: WHAT IS THE GAP IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Objective: to identify the gap in the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection. Method: an observational study conducted by an audit of process indicators in relation to the recommendations for preventing catheter-associated urinary ...
Oliveira,Adriana Cristina   +3 more
core   +1 more source

New and Emerging Artificial Urinary Sphincters for Male Stress Urinary Incontinence: From Gold Standard to Next Generation

open access: yesNeurourology and Urodynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction For more than four decades, the AMS‐800 has remained the clinical benchmark device for the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Although it remains the gold standard for male SUI, the AMS‐800 has continued to have limitations such as suboptimal post‐operative continence rates, fixed hydraulic pressure, need for ...
Erin C. Schnell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relation between Treated Maternal Urinary Tract Infection and Adverse Maternal, Prenatal Outcomes in Pregnant Women of Ardabil, Iran [PDF]

open access: yes
Background and Objective: ­ Urinary tract infection is one of the most common bacterial infections during pregnancy and has also been implicated as a risk factor for adverse maternal and prenatal ­­outcomes.
مرادی, شهلا   +5 more
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