An indwelling urinary catheter helps drain urine from your body when you can’t do it on your own. You may need one for any number of reasons: After surgery, with some cancer treatments, or if you have ...

Bacteria have a basic survival strategy: to colonize surfaces and grow as biofilm communities embedded in a gel-like polysaccharide matrix. The catheterized urinary tract provides ideal conditions for ...

SAN DIEGO, California — Hospital admissions from indwelling catheters are mushrooming, costing lives and money, a new study shows. "There are more and more complications," Janet Colli, MD, associate ...

External urinary catheters are less invasive than internal catheters, which drain urine from your bladder via a thin tube inserted into your urethra (Foley catheter) or via a small incision in the ...

image: Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in ...