Abstract
ABSTRACT
Five percent of 157 patients developed catheter-associated bacteriuria after elective gynecologic surgery. All patients had an indwelling catheter placed in the bladder for less than 24 hours. Seventy-nine patients did not receive prophylactic antibiotics, and 5 of these developed bacteriuria. Of the 78 patients who received prophylactic antibiotics, 3 developed bacteriuria. The difference in the number of patients who developed bacteriuria between these two groups was not statistically significant. Because of the potential infectious morbidity, we recommend that a urine culture should be obtained routinely to detect bacteriuria when the urethral catheter is removed regardless of the duration of its presence. (J Gynecol Surg 5:171, 1989)
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