Risks and benefits of urinary catheterisation during inpatient diuretic therapy for acute heart failure: a retrospective, non-inferiority, cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients with acute congestive heart failure (HF) regularly undergo urinary catheterisation (UC) at hospital admission. We hypothesised that UC has no clinical benefits with regard to weight loss during inpatient diuretic therapy for acute congestive HF and increases the risk of urinary tract infection (UTI).

Design

Retrospective, non-inferiority study.

Setting

Geneva University Hospitals' Department of Medicine, a tertiary centre.

Participants

In a cohort of HF patients, those catheterised within 24 hours of diuretic therapy (n=113) were compared with non-catheterised patients (n=346).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary endpoint was weight loss 48 hours after starting diuretic therapy. Secondary endpoints were time needed to r

SUBMITTER: John G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9362793 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature