Apply gauze soaked in cold sterile saline to the suprapubic area to stimulate infants ages 1 to 12 months to provide a clean-catch urine sample.
In fact, obtaining a clean-catch urine sample in this age group took an aver age of more than one hour in one randomized controlled trial (RCT).
Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the United Kingdom are similar, but allow for culture of clean-catch urine samples.
This RCT is the first to examine the efficacy of a unique stimulation technique to obtain a clean-catch urine sample from infants ages 1 to 12 months.
Feasibility of cranberry capsule administration and
clean-catch urine collection in long-term care residents.
"Because the use of urethral catheterization is an invasive method that could be associated with adverse events in up to 20% of children, our findings support the use of the
clean-catch urine standardized stimulation technique as an alternative to invasive methods to obtain a urine specimen," wrote Melanie Labrosse, MD, PhD, and her associates at the University of Montreal (Pediatrics.
Patients were not routinely instructed about the importance of collecting a true
clean-catch urine specimen correctly and how it may influence results.
Culture of a
clean-catch urine sample taken before the ertapenem was started yielded E.
Keay and her associates can detect APF in
clean-catch urine specimens using a time-consuming cell proliferation assay.
Keay and her associates are able to detect APF in
clean-catch urine specimens using a time-consuming and somewhat complicated cell proliferation assay.
Inclusion criteria were: female sex, BMI information available,
clean-catch urine sample, UC obtained, and diagnosis of UTI.
Spontaneously voided
clean-catch urines from 68 patients were collected with informed consent, stored at 4[degrees]C, and processed within 4 h of collection.