Reusable catheter strategies may be as safe as single-use devices for preventing UTIs, but questions remain about their practical use.

Fifty-seven percent of patients who received a urinary catheter while hospitalized said the catheter resulted in at least one complication, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found. The ...

Intraoperative urinary catheters do not reduce the risk for postoperative urinary retention (PUR) after laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, according to a study published online June 15 in JAMA ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Safe Medical Design, Inc. (SMD), a medical device company dedicated to developing safe and cost-effective solutions in urology, today announced that the U.S. Food and ...

The largest study of patients with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) utilizing a subcutaneous anchoring securement system (SASS) ever conducted shows that using subcutaneous anchors to ...

A urostomy bag and a catheter are two different devices that can help drain and collect urine from your body. A urostomy is often permanent, whereas a catheter is not. If you have certain medical ...

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