Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current guidelines endorse a cutoff of 50,000 colony-forming units per milliliter in urine to determine UTIs. A ...

Pediatricians frequently use urinalysis to diagnose urinary tract infection (UTI) while awaiting urine culture results, but sensitivity and specificity of urinalysis are limited. This study evaluated ...

May 20, 2010 — In preterm neonates, suprapubic aspiration (SPA) causes more pain than urine catheterization (UC) when used to rule out urinary tract infection, according to new research findings.

(HealthDay News) — Enactment of a quality improvement prevention bundle at a tertiary care children’s hospital significantly reduced the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), ...

Intermittent catheterization every 6 hours in postpartum women with urinary retention may be a better strategy than extended catheterization over 24 hours, a new prospective, randomized, controlled ...

A urinary catheter is a hollow, partially flexible tube that collects urine from the bladder and leads to a drainage bag. They come in many sizes and types. Catheters may be necessary in cases when ...

Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute ...

While parental reporting of malodorous urine is often indicative of urinary tract infection in young children, this is not a definitive marker of the infection, according to a recently published study ...