Monthly Archives: February 2017

Scheduled turning for pressure ulcers

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Evaluating optimal patient-turning procedures for reducing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (LS-HAPU): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. (n.d.). Trials., 17, Trials. , 2016, Vol.17.

Hsiao, R., Mi, Z., Yang, B., Kau, L., Bitew, M., & Li, T. (2015). Body posture recognition and turning recording system for the care of bed bound patients. Technology and Health Care., 24 Suppl 1, S307-S312.

Behrendt, R., Ghaznavi, A., Mahan, M., Craft, S., & Siddiqui, A. (n.d.). Continuous bedside pressure mapping and rates of hospital-associated pressure ulcers in a medical intensive care unit. American Journal of Critical Care., 23(2), 127-133.

Ostadabbas, S., Yousefi, R., Nourani, M., Faezipour, M., Tamil, L., & Pompeo, M. (2012). A resource-efficient planning for pressure ulcer prevention. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine : A Publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society., 16(6), 1265-1273.

Pressure Sores. Hagger, Christina [BA (Hons), MBA, PhD]. [Consumer Information Sheets] 2010

Having more than one person work together to insert an urinary catheter

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Relevant systematic reviews and guidelines do not mention having more than one person insert an urinary catheter.

Following are citations and links to full text for three items in which two people worked together to insert catheters:

Galiczewski JM, Shurpin KM. An intervention to improve the catheter associated urinary tract infection rate in a medical intensive care unit: Direct observation of catheter insertion procedure. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2017 Jun;40:26-34. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2016.12.003. Epub 2017 Feb 22. Excerpt: “CAUTI rates decreased from 2.24 to 0 per 1000 catheter days.” Three comments are available on this article. To view them, go here, and then copy and paste this url into the browser so that the Find it & Emory button will be available: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/58794408/public/.

Fletcher-Gutowski S, Cecil J. Is 2-person urinary catheter insertion effective in reducing CAUTI? Am J Infect Control. 2019 Jul 16. pii: S0196-6553(19)30575-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.05.014. [Epub ahead of print]. Excerpt: “The results of this study indicate implementation of the 2-person urinary catheter insertion protocol with a checklist decreased the risk of CAUTI for our patient population.”

Breiter Y et al. 9-186 – Catheter-associated urinary tract infection reduction in the emergency department as a result of dual personnel urinary catheter insertion. American Journal of Infection Control. 2016;44:6(S88-S89). (this is only an abstract; 201 patients underwent dual personnel urinary catheter insertion; none developed a CAUTI)

Heudorf U. Grünewald M, Otto U. Implementation of the updated 2015 Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO) recommendations “Prevention and control of catheter-associated urinary tract infections” in the hospitals in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. GMS Hyg Infect Control. 2016 Jun 30;11:Doc14. doi: 10.3205/dgkh000274. eCollection 2016. Excerpt: “demonstrations were always performed by two persons (the second to hand the sterile materials to the first).”

Updated 8/23/2019 ldt