A skeleton key to the new UTI guidelines

摘要

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has completed a massive update and revision of its 1981 guidelines to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs).1 A painstaking review of reams of evidence - even the appendix is 268 pages long - boils down to some of the common-sense measures that many infection preventionists on the front lines are already practicing. "When you look at the guidelines in general, the primary strategy is trying to minimize urinary catheter use. That's definitely where we have focused our efforts. And once they are in there - get them out as quick as possible," says Titus Daniels, MD, MPH, associate hospital epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.