The model has the potential to help professionals to identify the factors likely to influence response to clean intermittent self-catheterization, and could be used as a tool to help identify those who may have difficulty complying with the treatment or to aid advice-giving on situations that may cause difficulties.
Adequate information and thorough instruction by healthcare professionals helps empower people to take control and master the treatment, with potential contribution to ongoing compliance and long-term urinary tract health. Development of a policy supporting evidence-based care and a consistent teaching programme is highly recommended for use where this treatment is regularly employed.
There is no evidence surrounding the benefits, effects or clinical outcomes treating asymptomatic urinary tract colonisation. A series of 558 patients undergoing elective admission for orthopaedic surgery were recruited prior to surgery and were screened for urinary tract infection (UTI). Patients had their urine dipstick tested and positive samples were sent for culture and microscopy. Patients with a positive urine culture were treated with antibiotics prior to surgery; 85% of dipsticks tested were positive, while only 7% of the urine samples were culture positive. Over 36% of patients with a pre-operative UTI show some form of postoperative delayed wound healing or confirmed infection versus 16% in the other subgroup giving a relative risk of wound complications of 2:1 (p<0.02). We have established that patients who present to pre-admission with urinary tract colonisation are a high risk subgroup for wound infection post-operatively.Résumé L'analyse d'urine est une pratique pré-opératoire habituelle en chirurgie orthopédique. Il n'y a pas d'évi-dence à traiter, a priori, les infections du tractus urinaires.Méthode: une série de 558 patients admis en chirurgie orthopédique et hospitalisés avant une intervention chirurgicale ont bénéficié d'une analyse urinaire systématique. Les patients présentant des tests positifs ont bénéficié par ailleurs d'une culture et d'un examen au microscope. Les patients présentant des cultures urinaires positives (plus de 105 colonies par mml) ont été traités par antibiotiques avant l'intervention chirurgicale. Résultats: 85% des analyses étaient positives, 7% seulement présentaient des cultures positives. 36% des patients qui avaient une infection urinaire pré-opératoire ont montré, en post-opératoire des problèmes de cicatrisation ou d'infection, versus 16% dans l'autre sous-groupe ceci donnant, pour cet autre sousgroupe un risque relatif de complications profondes de 2/1 (p<0,02). En conclusion, les cultures d'urine en pré-opératoire doivent être poursuivies chez tous les patients devant bénéficier d'une chirurgie orthopédique d'autant que les patients qui présentaient à l'admission une infection du tractus urinaire étaient à haut risque de complications profondes en post-opératoire.
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