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Bladder irrigation with Chlorhexidine reduces bacteriuria in persons with spinal cord injury.

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, January 2018
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Title
Bladder irrigation with Chlorhexidine reduces bacteriuria in persons with spinal cord injury.
Published in
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, January 2018
DOI 10.2340/16501977-2298
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Madeleine Wikström, Richard Levi, Wolfram Antepohl

Abstract

To explore whether bladder irrigation with chlorhexidine: (i) can reduce bacteriuria, and (ii) is a practically feasible option in subjects with spinal cord injury practicing intermittent self-catheterization. A prospective, non-controlled, open, multi-centre study. Fifty patients with spinal cord injury, practicing intermittent self-catheterization, with a history of recurrent urinary tract infections were screened for bacteriuria at follow-up visits to 4 spinal cord injury centres in Sweden. Twenty-three patients had a positive urine culture (> 105 CFU/ml of > 1 bacterial species), of which 19 completed the study. Subjects proceeded with bladder irrigation, using 120 ml of 0.2% chlorhexidine solution twice daily for up to 7 days. Urine samples were taken twice daily. Response to treatment was defined as reduction in bacterial counts to < 103 CFU/ml. Fourteen of 19 subjects reduced their bacterial counts to or below the set limit. Subsequent return of above-endpoint bacteriuria was seen in most of the subjects. However, there were significantly fewer subjects with bacteriuria after treatment (p < 0.005). Bladder irrigation with chlorhexidine, using intermittent self-catheterization, reduced bacteriuria in the majority of subjects with spinal cord injury and bacteriuria. The addition of bladder irrigation was practically feasible in the short time-frame of this study.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Other 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Librarian 2 7%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 11 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 39%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 11%
Psychology 1 4%
Neuroscience 1 4%
Chemistry 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 11 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 October 2019.
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#7,208,166
of 25,382,440 outputs
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#376
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#134,680
of 449,550 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
#25
of 84 outputs
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