Reducing the Risk of Indwelling Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Female Patients by Implementing an Alternative Female External Urinary Collection Device: A Quality Improvement Project.

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) risk for female patients by implementing a female external urinary collection (FEUC) device with suction as an alternative to indwelling catheter (IDC).

Participants And Setting: Participants were female patients admitted to our 386-bed community hospital in Southern California and who required urinary management.

Approach: We implemented a comprehensive CAUTI prevention program in 2014 that was in place for 1.

Coloboma of the crystalline lens.

Background: Anomalies of crystalline lens shape and position include: lenticonus, lentiglobus, microspherophakia, coloboma, and ectopia lentis. Lens coloboma probably results from a localized absence or maldevelopment of lens zonules. It may be a variant of nontraumatic (congenital) ectopia lentis, in which the zonular deficiency is more generalized.

Acquired Horner's syndrome: clinical review.

Background: Horner's syndrome results from disruption of the sympathetic innervation to the eye anywhere along its three-neuron circuit. It is essential to be familiar with the oculosympathetic pathway, the structures that are in close proximity to it, and the disease processes that may interrupt it when an evaluation is made of an acquired Horner's syndrome, since it may be a manifestation of a life-threatening condition.

Case Reports And Discussion: Four patients with acquired Horner's syndrome resulting from various etiologies are presented.