February 12, 2010 — An Expert Panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America has issued new guidelines to diagnose, prevent, and manage catheter-associated urinary tract infection (UTI ...

Urethral catheterization may also be used for therapeutic indications, such as the decompression of acute urinary retention, intermittent catheterization of neurogenic bladder, and continuous ...

Staff did not always consider using intermittent catheterisation and the indications for using a urethral catheter were not always clear. Anaesthetic consultants had also raised concerns that patients ...

The indications for pleural drainage are diagnostic ... The diameter of the catheter used depends on the type of pleural fluid that appears to be present. A larger diameter should be used to ...

The initiative included educating clinicians on appropriate indications for urinary catheter use and encouraging daily assessment of urinary catheter necessity. Of 71 Michigan hospitals that were ...

New guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) provide updated definitions of disease severity and incorporate recommendations on the use of catheter-based ...

Although urethral catheter placement is routine after this common treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), no guidelines inform duration of catheter use. Study Design: RAND/UCLA ...

The origins of this approach come from the paediatric interventional experience, although techniques and indications for interventional cardiac catheterization in adults are now being developed ...

Regarding indications for catheter ablation, one major change in this document is upgraded advice for the use of this technology as a first-line treatment for patients with symptomatic paroxysmal AF.

Fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with any type of anesthesia has been common practice, and was reaffirmed in the 2023 Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting from the ...