October 24, 2006 -- Compared with clean intermittent self-catheterization after urogynecologic surgery, suprapubic catheterization results in a similar risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) but is ...

Certain surgically implanted, or suprapubic, catheters do not improve outcomes that are important for older adults’ well-being, such as functional ability and cognitive status, a study in nursing ...

Infected Kidney Stone Sepsis Patient Advantages in terms of bother and pain surface in a prospective randomized trial comparing suprapubic tubes and urethral catheters. Suprapubic tubes may be a ...

A Naples doctor who is board certified in radiology finished a catheter placement — then learned he had done the procedure on the wrong patient. That’s in the Florida Department of Health ...

Among over 450 such patients, no significant difference was observed in the rate of PUR for those who received an intraoperative catheter placement versus those who did not (9.6% vs 8.5%, respectively ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — One in four Americans in the hospital right now has a urinary catheter. One percent of them will get a urinary tract infection from that catheter. All of those will require ...