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Changing the culture: impact of a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine culture testing and CAUTI prevention in an urban safety-net community hospital

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Cultures from urinary catheters are often ordered without indication, leading to possible misdiagnosis of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), increasing antimicrobial use, and C difficile.
Alfredo J. Mena Lora, Jessica Hua, Mirza Ali, Candice Krill, Eden Takhsh, Susan C. Bleasdale   +5 more
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Rapid severe hypertension and organ damage in two‐kidney two‐clip rats produced by different sizes of clips

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Blood pressure increases immediately when the 2K2C rats (made with 0.3, 0.25, and 0.2 mm U‐shaped clips) regain consciousness from anesthesia. 100% of the rats develop hypertension on the day of 2K2C surgery. Blood pressure continues to rise, resulting in severe hypertension and organ damage to the brain, heart, aorta, and kidneys at 1, 2, 4, and 6 ...
Jia‐Sheng Tian, Qi‐Sheng Ling, Yu‐Chen Wei, Dao‐Xin Wang, Chao‐Yu Miao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of anti-microbial catheters in preventing catheter associated urinary tract infections in hospitalized patients: A review on recent updates

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2019
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are the common hospital-associated infections (HAIs), which can be prevented by practicing necessary precautions and by using antimicrobial urinary catheters (UCs).
Manaf Al-Qahtani, Abeer Safan, Ghufran Jassim, Sara Abadla   +3 more
doaj  

Predicting Abrasion Resistance in Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Using Machine Learning

Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
Data‐driven prediction of TPU abrasion resistance using Gradient Boosting Regression (GBR), demonstrating superior performance through an ensemble of decision trees. ABSTRACT Abrasion resistance is a critical property of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), especially for applications in automotive, footwear, and medical devices where durability under ...
Sara Zahmatkesh, Hamed Esmaeili, Alfonso Tavares Valerio, Reza Rizvi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biocompatible anti-microbial coatings for urinary catheters

, 2016
Using a simple dip-coating mechanism, urinary catheters have been coated with poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl)trimethylammonium chloride (pMTAC) using activator regenerated by electron transfer (ARGET)–atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP).
Vanessa C. Thompson, P. Adamson, Jessirie Dilag, D. Liyanage, Kagithiri Srikantharajah, A. Blok, A. Ellis, D. Gordon, Ingo Köper   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards the development of the psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale for continence (C-PIADS) [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Current outcome measures for continence management devices do not adequately address psychosocial impact. The PIADS is an assessment tool that has been shown to reliably predict the adoption and use of assistive technology devices, but it is ...
A. Long, E. van den Heuvel, J.W. Jutai, K. Southall, N. Cotterill, Pedro Encarnação, S. Fowler   +6 more
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Histochemical indications for a chemically complex signal produced by the cervical gill slit gland of the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) possesses an exocrine gland associated with its false gill slit pigmentation pattern. The cervical gill slit gland is a compound tubuloalveolar gland that produces a holocrine secretion and displays maturational changes in size and secretory histology. While the morphology of the cervical gill slit gland
Tiffany F. Keenan, William A. McLellan, Sentiel A. Rommel, Alexander M. Costidis, Craig A. Harms, J. G. M. Thewissen, Susan J. Rehorek, David S. Rotstein, Mark D. Gay, Alison R. Taylor, Heather N. Koopman, Ying Wang, Stephanie Kamel, D. Ann Pabst   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restriction of in vivo infection by antifouling coating on urinary catheter with controllable and sustained silver release: a proof of concept study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections are among the most common urological infections world-wide. Bacterial biofilms and encrustation cause significant complications in patients with urinary catheters.
Kedar Diwakar Mandakhalikar, Rong Wang, Juwita N. Rahmat, Edmund Chiong, Koon Gee Neoh, Paul A. Tambyah   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pharmacokinetics of betamethasone in pre‐eclampsia: An in vivo and ex vivo study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims To enhance understanding of betamethasone and its metabolites' pharmacokinetics in pregnancy, specifically early‐onset pre‐eclampsia, through a population pharmacokinetic model. Additionally, to investigate the placental metabolism and transfer of betamethasone and its main metabolites.
Sam Schoenmakers, Letao Li, Anna C. M. Kluivers, Michelle Broekhuizen, Madhavi S. Harhangi, A. H. Jan Danser, Irwin Reiss, Karel Allegaert, Sjoerd A. A. van den Berg, Bertrand D. van Zelst, Ron H. N. van Schaik, Philip L. J. DeKoninck, Emma Ronde, Sebastiaan D. T. Sassen, Sinno H. P. Simons, Birgit C. P. Koch   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteriuria as a Predictor of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia. Results of a Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]

, 2020
Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (SA-BSI) is an infection with increasing morbidity and mortality. Concomitant Staphylococcus aureus bacteriuria (SABU) frequently occurs in patients with SA-BSI.
Behnke, Michael, Gastmeier, Petra, Gruhl, Désirée, Kramer, Tobias Siegfried, Leistner, Rasmus, Schlosser, Beate, Schwab, Frank   +6 more
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