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The Catheter Team [PDF]

open access: possibleAJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1964
The authors report that they "cannot claim to have solved entirely the problem of preventing infection in patients with indwelling catheters." They believe, though, that the assignment of catheter care responsibilities to a small and highly skilled group of nursing personnel represents a practical and helpful approach to this problem.
Rosemary Lindan, Anne T. Keane
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Antimicrobial strategies for urinary catheters.

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A, 2018
Over 75% of hospital-acquired or nosocomial urinary tract infections are initiated by urinary catheters, which are used during the treatment of 16% of hospitalized patients. Taking the United States as an example, the costs of catheter-associated urinary
Zhiling Zhu   +3 more
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Catheters and Catheter Care

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1986
For patients with incontinence who cannot be managed by other means, external or internal urine collecting devices may be useful. Condom catheters have been used for men, but analogous external collection devices for women are not widely available. Long-term urethral catheterization causes a dynamic polymicrobial bacteriuria that may be complicated by ...
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Citrate versus heparin lock for hemodialysis catheters: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2014
BACKGROUND Citrate solution has been suggested as an effective and safe catheter lock in hemodialysis. However, whether a citrate lock is superior to a heparin lock in preventing catheter-related infections and maintaining catheter patency is ...
Yuliang Zhao   +6 more
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