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Nosocomial Bacteriuria: Estimating the Potential for Prevention by Closed Sterile Urinary Drainage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John P. Burke ,
Robert A. Larsen  and
Lane E. Stevens
John P. Burke*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, LDS Hospital, andthe University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Robert A. Larsen
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, LDS Hospital, andthe University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Lane E. Stevens
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, LDS Hospital, andthe University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
*
Division of Infectious Disease, LDS Hospital, Eighth Avenue and C Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84143
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Extract

Urinary tract infections associated with the temporary use of indwelling bladder catheters remain a vexing problem in acute care hospitals. The appreciable morbidity and mortality from these infections are still under active investigation. Because of the large numbers of patients at risk, increased attention is also being given to the costs for prevention, detection, treatment, and follow-up of catheter-associated infections.

Before the advent of commercially available systems for maintaining closed sterile urinary drainage, infection was believed to be inevitable. In the past 25 years, the successful prevention of infection in 70% to 80% of catheterized patients by aseptic methods has undoubtedly prevented thousands of deaths from gram-negative bacteremia and stimulated efforts to further reduce the infection rate.

Type
Research Article
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , supplement S2: Proceedings of the Second ICI/Stuart Workshop , February 1986 , pp. 96 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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