Catheters

Your Life Your Health

Catheters

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Published on Dec 26, 2023, 6:00:00 AM
Total time: 00:01:30

Episode Description

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Dr. Tamara Sheffield segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss howDr. Payal Patel, a physician at Intermountain Health, is leading a national effort to reduce one of the most common types of infections that occur in hospital patients to improve care and reduce unnecessary costs. Dr. Patel is an infectious diseases physician at Intermountain Health and lead author of new national recommendations that address updated guidelines for the use of indwelling urinary catheters in hospital patients.

Air date:  Dec. 26, 2023

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