Dear all ,
Our micro biology team are suggesting we stop using gentamycin prior to catheter removal.
This has been practice for as long as I can remember.
Am I out of date?
Chris Tulloch
Hi
Stopped post removal Antibiotics about 2 years ago except when the original catheterisation
was traumatic / bloody. (advice from urologists)
Variable as to who gets cathetreised. No standard policy. Blokes plus
spinal or elderly plus spinal seem to all get catheters.
Andrew
Mr Andrew Perry BSc MB BS FRCS(Tr & Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Chief of Service for Orthopaedics and Plastics
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Hi
We stopped post removal ABx about 4 years ago on micro advice; no increase in
uro-sepsis / 2o infection
We don’t routinely catheterise our knee replacement patients; stopped about 2 years
ago. Hip team restarted routine catheters about a year ago due to % going into retention.
Cheers
Sunny Deo, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon
We don’t use abx for removal of catheters
And only on insertion if >24 hrs from surgery
On micro advice
Tom Symes
Clinical Director for Trauma
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust