Objective:

To determine compliance with the indicator of Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections in Patients with a Bladder catheter installed in a second level hospital institution in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Materials and Methods:

Descriptive cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 80 patients with a bladder catheter installed. The instrument Prevention of urinary tract infections in patients with an installed bladder catheter (F1-PIVUPSVI / 05) and a sociodemographic card were used. The statistical package SPSS-20 was used to analyze the data.

Results:

In the population, the female sex predominated with 56.3%. The service with the highest prevalence with a bladder catheter installed was internal medicine with 35% and general surgery with 31%. Indicator compliance was low (red) with 62.5% (50) corresponding to the signaling scale of ≤70%, 33.8% (27) medium (yellow) equivalent to> 70≤90 and only 3.8% (3) tall.

Conclusions:

Compliance with the indicator of prevention of urinary tract infections in patients with a bladder catheter installed is low according to the signaling of the INDICAS system, the criteria found with the highest percentage of compliance were those related to the permanently connected drainage system, records Operating data and collection bag is kept below the level of the bladder.

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