This article seeks to provide a solution to the following question: What’s new in medicine to solve the costly, deadly issue of indwelling catheter infections?
Hospital-associated infections (HAIs) are the most common and preventable complications in healthcare today. Each year, $28 billion to $48 billion is spent on HAIs in the United States alone (Infect Drug Resist 2018;11:2321-2333). For patients who are immunocompromised or have organ failure,