Comparing the effects of water vs. povidone-iodine solution for periurethral cleaning prior to urinary catheterization on bacteriuria

Urinary catheterization is a common procedure in the care and hospitalized women drawn from gynecology unit of Shaheed Sadoughi Hospital inYazd. They were selected through random sampling, and were allocated in two groups.After registering the participants’ demographic data, the urine culture samples were sent to laboratory. The samples with more than 10 microorganisms were recorded. All statistics were computed by the SPSS software data.A clinical trial study design was carried out with a sample of 603 bacteriuria were recognized and the 20% using water and 16.7% using povidone -iodine solution. The difference betweenthe groups wasn’t significant (were Stafilococco aureo (6.65%), escherichia coli (10%), Enterococcus (3.35%) and in povidone -iodine solution group were gram positive cocci (3.35%), estafilococo (3.35%), streptococ (3.35%) and escherichia coli (6.65%) which weren’t significantly different (Overally, 18.3% of the participants had shown bacteriuria which wasP=0.5). The contributor microorganisms in water groupP=0.5). between groups. It seemed that using povidone -iodine solution didn’t reduce the rate of bacteriuria more than water. As applying water has no side effects and is more beneficial economically, it could be recommended for peri urethral cleaning prior to urinary catheterization in short term.The findings indicated that there were no significant differences treatment of hospitalized patients and bacteriuria is associated with complications and decreased quality of healthcare services. Applying any safe and cost benefit action to reduce or prevent it is of great importance which using the antiseptic solutions, is one of them. It seems that doing the procedure with clean method alike to sterile method is safe and using water is preferred to antiseptic solutions due to economical reasons,availability, and not having side effects. The present study was therefore conducted to compare the effects of water vs. povidone -iodine solution for periurethral cleaning prior to urinary catheterization on bacteriuria.