As part of its ongoing efforts to make health care safer, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released a new toolkit to help hospitals prevent catheter-associated urinary tract ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has released a practice alert that updates clinical guidelines for the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. In the practice ...

Here are 10 articles from Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality on catheters and catheter-associated urinary tract infections that caught the attention of readers in 2015. From 2009 to 2013, ...

A recent study published in Advanced Materials Interfaces presents a bio-based nanocomposite coating designed to reduce the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in commercial ...

Urinary catheters are required for nearly every surgical procedure. However, a major challenge for the health care industry is predicting who may develop catheter-associated urinary tract infections ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Results of a national survey of infection control experts highlight the shortcomings of the widely used Foley urinary catheter. The new findings may help explain why ...

UroShield Cited as Effective in Preventing CAUTIs and Blockages, Having a Major Impact on Quality of Life and Reducing Healthcare Resource Costs ELMSFORD, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NanoVibronix, Inc.

To help prevent CAUTIs, Flores-Mireles and her lab are developing a novel catheter that minimizes the inflammation and mechanical damage caused by typical catheters, preventing fibrin structures from ...