Efficacy of silver-coated urinary catheters for reducing urinary tract infection in dogs

You are a small animal registered veterinary nurse working in a referral practice. Your practice has seen a high incidence of UTIs in canine patients with indwelling urinary catheters. Recognising...

Canine urinary incontinence: diagnosis and treatment

To understand how a dog becomes incontinent it is important to first understand the physiology of normal micturition (the act of urinating). Urinary continence requires coordination between the...

Complications of diabetes mellitus in canine and feline patients

Traditionally, classification of diabetes mellitus has mirrored that of the human disorder and is categorised into type-1 like and type-2 like diabetes mellitus..

Urinary catheters: indications for use and management

Guptill (2015) expressed that the primary goal of all veterinary professionals is keeping their patients healthy, and a large focus in relation to maintaining their health in practice concerns the...

The use and management of closed urinary catheters

Sedor and Mullholland (1999) explained that approximately 25% of human patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) have an IDUC placed in order to improve nursing care. They are thought to prevent urine...