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Description: An estimated 4 million patients per year in the United States have urinary catheters in acute, home and long-term care. Twenty five percent of all hospitalized patients will have a urinary catheter inserted at some point during their hospitalization. Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) contribute to greater than 30% of nosocomial hospital infections annually. It has been estimated that each episode of catheter-associated urinary tract infection will add approximately $700.00 to the cost of care. Studies have demonstrated that colonization of the bladder occurs within two to four weeks after catheter insertion and this may lead to urosepsis and ultimately septicemia. Therefore routine use of urinary catheters is discouraged. The Centers for Disease Control released Guidelines for the Prevention of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections in 1981 and these are still considered to be the standard of care. This presentation will discuss these original recommendations and address new technology and research to promote evidence based practice by all practitioners.

Speaker:

Tracey Siegel is a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner and Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse who is currently employed at a hospital-based diploma school of nursing. Siegel has more than 30 years of nursing experience in various nursing specialties including critical care, long-term care, nursing management and medical surgical nursing. For the past 15 years she has specialized in wound, ostomy and continence nursing; and has authored numerous articles and presented at nursing conventions and symposiums. Siegel has an interest in catheter securement and was the primary investigator for a research study published in 2006 in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing titled “Do Nurses Perceive the Stabilization of Indwelling Urinary Catheters as Necessary?”.

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