CAUTI - decades of little progress?

In this episode Brett Mitchell and Martin Kiernan chew the fat over the fact that, despite knowing that it makes up a great proportion of HCAIs globally, progress can be measured in a series of small victories without actually winning the war. We discuss a new systematic review that suggests benefit from meatal cleansing with antiseptics (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190044/pdf/bmjopen-2020-046817.pdf) as well as barriers to progress in this important issue https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(21)00149-3/fulltext

We will return to this topic again!