CAUTI

Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection in the Hospital

Table of Content

Literature Review1

Literature Research Methodology1

Ethical Consideration2

Findings2

Rise in Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection3

The Causes of CAUTI4

Who is at risk?5

Criteria and Calculations for Reporting CAUTI6

Importance of Role of Nursing in reducing CAUTI8

Silver as A Remedy for CAUTI11

Conclusion14

References16

Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection in the Hospital

Literature Review

A literature review is actually an explanation of the literature appropriate for any particular field or may be any kind of topic. A literature review can be only a simple synopsis of a couple of sources, but it is important to note that generally it possess a pattern and combines both summary and synthesis. A summary is basically a sum up of the major information of the source that has been used, but a synthesis is a restructuring of that particular study or set of information. The literature review in this work has been formulated after collecting data from a number of sources such as BJU international; study the criteria and calculations in reporting CAUTI, study aimed to measure the proof base of hospital-based CAUTI risk factors, several issues surrounding catheter-linked urinary tract infections in women and elderly and NICE guidelines.

In this chapter, we have presented a review of relevant literature, highlighting the previous research carried out in the field of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection in the Hospital. We have obtained the data from the database of British Journal of Nursing, Journal of Infection Prevention, Nursing Times, Nursing Older People, JAMA and Journal of Hospital Infection.

Literature Research Methodology

The search of the literature was done on the researches between 2003-2012 about the catheter associated urinary infection. We have started the study by using British Journal of Nursing, Journal of Infection Prevention, Nursing Times, Nursing Older People, JAMA and Journal of Hospital Infection. For the identification of interest studie were done with the use of key terms and phrases like CAUTI, urinary tract infection, Catheter associated infections and so on.

Twelve researches were opted for a comprehensive analysis since they give same thought matching with the objectives of the authors and the purpose of the review regarding catheter associated urinary infection.

Ethical Consideration

This research has been conducted so that the integrity of research could be maintained? and contradictory effects that could undermine the promise for future research are avoided in this research. This study is associated with issues that are considered as important

Findings

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are widespread diseases that are acquired in hospitals and even in a number of continuing care services. Previous studies have established that the occurrence of UTI that are associated with healthcare at almost two to three patients per 100 admissions. The same results have also been supported by the more recent published research reports. This is the reason why there are risks for healthcare linked UTI have been proposed and so it is currently recognized that the main predisposing aspects for healthcare-linked UTI is the existence of an indwelling urethral catheter. There have been studies that have revealed that 75%-80% of all healthcare associated ...