Non-returning Catheter Valve for Reducing CAUTI

Khon Kaen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection; Critically Ill Patients

Treatments: Device: Conventional urine bag; Device: Non-returning catheter valve

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01963013

CAUTI-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was to determine efficacy of the non-returning catheter valve for reducing catheter associated urinary tract infection compared with conventional urine bag in critically ill patients.

Full description

Non-returning catheter valve (generic name) used UnometerTM SafetiTM Plus (trade name)

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The participants who age more than 18 year and admitted to the medical intensive care unit or intermediate care unit
• All participants must be retained the urinary catheter.

Exclusion criteria

• The participants were diagnosed urinary tract infection before retention of the urinary catheter.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Non-returning catheter valve

Experimental group

Description:

Non-returning catheter valve (UnometerTM SafetiTM Plus) was used in experimental group only.

Treatment:

Device: Non-returning catheter valve

Conventional urine bag

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conventional urine bag hasn't the non-returning catheter valve.

Treatment:

Device: Conventional urine bag