Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Noninfectious complications of urethral catheters are common, and should be a focus of surveillance and ...

Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute ...

March 23, 2009 (Stockholm, Sweden) — Interns just starting their yearly rotation get little if any training on how to insert urethral catheters and, as a result, can cause unnecessary damage to the ...

Long-term indwelling urethral catheter (IUC) use is associated with a higher incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) in people with spinal cord injury, according to a study published online March ...

Although indwelling urethra catheterization is a medical intervention with well-defined risks, such as catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CA-UTI), studies show that in hospitalized patients ...

Relying on a urinary catheter is a standard part of medical care for hundreds of thousands of patients each year.

If you’ve ever had a urinary catheter, you’ll know they’re unpleasant. If you haven’t, imagine someone threading a tube up through your urethra into your bladder and … yes, yes they hurt. Mercifully, ...

Urethral catheterization of the female guinea pig has potential diagnostic, therapeutic and research applications. Urethral catheter placement in the female guinea pig is relatively easy to carry out ...

A urethral stricture can seriously impact a man’s life. Previous treatments available had low success rate, but there are new options available to treat the condition. Dr. Jeremy B. Myers talks about ...