Is There a Way to Prevent a CAUTI?

There's plenty of non-invasive ways to accomplish that without having to put in an indwelling Foley. When we've colonized their urine and we've impaired their ability to void on their own, those patients often get infections. There are some other situations we can discuss, like for example, catheter materials may make a small difference. If you're struggling with cotties, the CDC mentions that if you're doing all the other stuff that you're doing your patient could consider using hydrophilic catheters. Would you ever do prophylactic antibiotics with someone who needed them? In this case, I would definitely bring up Prophylactic Antifungal