US researchers have effectively “grown” new urethras for five young boys in Mexico, using their own cells to grow the tubes and replace their damaged tissue. And, after six years, these lab-grown urethras are still working. Published on Monday, the study...
CatheterGuide.com started over a year ago, and with 2011 coming quickly we’re looking forward boldly into the exciting new innovations and news in Urology. Here is a wrap-up of 2010’s most popular content on Urinary Catheter Guide: Innovation, Guides, and...
A recent study funded by Coloplast demonstrates the use of a hydrophilic-coated Speedicath catheter lessens the risk of experiencing a first UTI by 50% after recent spinal cord injury. The study involved 105 patients with acute spinal cord injury who were randomized...
The market for urinary catheters has become extremely lucrative, with its market value somewhere around $230 million dollars according to the Millennium Research Group. And the demand isn’t slowing any time soon. With an aging group of Baby Boomers and Medicare...
A new article on Today’s Medical Developments highlighted a new and improved latex that could make health care supplies less expensive and requires less resources than their synthetic alternatives currently used by the 3% of patients and 17% of healthcare...
As you may be aware, catheter-associated urinary tract infections are among the most common infections in hospital settings. The causes and facts for CAUTI are numerous, but typically infections are developed from compromised sterility when inserting a catheter, or...
Today I found a fact sheet on CAUTI and catheter usage and thought I’d share some of the statistics and information with you. http://www.wocn.org/resource/resmgr/cauti_fact_sheet.pdf This review of CAUTIs and urinary catheters presents factual, sourced information...
While most catheters are purchased for medical purposes, many men have other uses for external male catheters aside from incontinence or Urology. Once such instance of this is scuba diving. Nature calls no matter where you’re at, and scuba diving presents some...
CAUTIs are one of the most common hospital infections, and many times these infections could be avoiding by better procedures followed by nursing staff inserting and changing the catheters. Urinary tract infections increase patient suffering, but even on a purely...
Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections are the source of the suffering of patients, extended costs, and more frequent hospital care for many patients. In fact, CAUTIs have been on the rise in hospitals for years now. Medline’s new catheter tray helps to...
