
#402 Don’t Get Caught with a CAUTI
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Avoid Catheters and Urinary Tract Infections
Female external catheters, I see more and more that is being used as well in the hospital. Even though the upsource, the material can cause micro abrasions. And also, if the patient is having diarrhea, that catheter is going to pick that up. That could also just by proximity cause some of colonization. When you go take a urine sample, you don't clean the area, you're actually just getting the colonized and terracoccas and the rest of the gram negatives that are sit there. So looking at those indwelling catheters,. you always look for other things that can help you like, you know, the look of cytosis and the
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