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Securing the Indwelling Catheter

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2008
Each year, millions of Americans are catheterized to ensure adequate bladder drainage. But despite the high rate of catheterization in acute care facilities, clinicians often pay little attention to the decision to insert an indwelling catheter, its optimal management, or especially its timely removal.
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Indwelling urethral catheters

Nursing Standard, 2001
Lesley Simpson discusses the risks associated with indwelling urethral catheters and identifies how nurses can reduce them with proactive management.
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Complications associated with indwelling catheters

Medical and Pediatric Oncology, 1992
AbstractBetween 1983 and 1985, 170 consecutive patients received doxorubicin‐containing adjuvant chemotherapy through central venous catheters, and four via a long indwelling catheter in the antecubital fossa. The objective of this retrospective study is to determine the acute and chronic complications associated with indwelling catheters. Ninety‐four (
Kathy Marts, David M. Ota, Jeané R. Simmons, Aman U. Buzdar, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi   +4 more
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Use of indwelling pleural catheters for cardiogenic pleural effusions.

Chest, 2013
BACKGROUND Cardiogenic pleural effusions are rarely refractory to treatment of the underlying disease. Few options are available in these cases. Indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) insertion has been well described for the management of malignant pleural ...
N. Srour, Rajini Potechin, K. Amjadi
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Indwelling pleural catheters reduce inpatient days over pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion.

Chest, 2012
BACKGROUND Patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) have limited prognoses. They require long-lasting symptom relief with minimal hospitalization.
E. Fysh, E. Fysh, G. Waterer, G. Waterer, Peter A Kendall, Peter A Kendall, P. Bremner, S. Dina, E. Geelhoed, Kate McCarney, S. Morey, Michael Millward, M. Millward, A. Musk, A. Musk, Y. C. G. Lee, Y. C. Lee   +16 more
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Types of indwelling urinary catheters for long-term bladder drainage in adults.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012
BACKGROUND Prolonged urinary catheterization is common amongst people in long-term care settings and this carries a high risk of developing a catheter-related urinary tract infection and associated complications.
Patrick Jahn, Katrin Beutner, G. Langer
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A review of strategies to decrease the duration of indwelling urethral catheters and potentially reduce the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

Urologic Nursing, 2012
The use of indwelling urinary catheters in hospitalized patients presents an increased risk of the development of complications, including catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI).
Michael S Bernard, Kathleen F. Hunter, K. Moore   +2 more
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Biofilms on indwelling vascular catheters

Critical Care Medicine, 1992
Some bacteria have a natural tendency to adhere to available surfaces and to form biofilms. Biofilms have been demonstrated on right heart flow-directed catheters, endocardial pacemaker leads, urinary catheters, and other medical devices. In this study, we examined arterial and central venous catheters that had been in place in ICU patients between 1 ...
J. Costerton, E.G. King, Louise Passerini, Kan Lam   +3 more
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Emergencies of indwelling venous catheters

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1992
It is estimated that over 500,000 indwelling venous access devices are inserted yearly in the United States.’ Although predominantly inserted in oncology patients, these devices provide long-term access for any patient in need of prolonged infusions. Indwelling venous catheters fall into three broad categories.
Alfred Sacchetti, Jeff Gryn
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Indwelling catheters: practical guidelines for catheter blockage

British Journal of Nursing, 2000
Catheterization is a medical decision and requires a team approach involving, where possible, the patient and carer, as well as those professionals administering care. Catheterization and subsequent effective catheter drainage is associated with many dangers and complications (Lowthian, 1998) and therefore the decision to catheterize someone should ...
Ann Winder, Willie Doherty
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