Prostate clinical nurse specialists Maria Innes and Helen Casson provide advice to patients after their prostatectomy on how they can remove their own catheters, offer a follow-up call once the ...

A program led and implemented by nurses reduced catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in the unit with the highest rate in its health system, leading to substantial savings.

David Ginsberg, MD Disclosures March 03, 2005 0 Question Several female patients of mine have experienced urinary retention after the removal of a Foley catheter. Is the cause usually urethral edema?

(For women with a Foley catheter: Start from where the catheter goes into your urethra, making sure to separate the labia, and wipe back toward your anus. This keeps you from spreading germs from ...

Delayed catheter removal, multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteraemia and chronic renal failure were all associated with 30-day mortality in patients with bloodstream infections. Early catheter ...