Authors : Amit R. Porwal, U.T. Mane, Amit C. Botre, Rahul S. Patil and A.T. Pardesi
Abstract: CAUTI is the most prevalent nosocomial infections, especially in patients with medical ICU. The purpose of this study is to determine the independent risk factors for catheter-associated bacteria in the medical ICU such as age, sex, period of catheterization, length of stay in the hospital and antibiotic exposure during hospitalization. The 25% of hospitalized patients undergo urinary catheterisation and the incidence of infection is approximately 5-7% for each day of catheterisation. Out of the 196 patients 30 (15.30 %) patients were detected to have CAUTI. Catheterisation period was established as the most important independent risk factor for CAB and prior antibiotic exposure was not found to be a protective factor.
Amit R. Porwal, U.T. Mane, Amit C. Botre, Rahul S. Patil and A.T. Pardesi, 2016. Urinary Tract Infection in Indoor Patients with Indwelling Foley’s Catheterisation. Research Journal of Pharmacology, 10: 34-37.