DISCUSSION
Currently, there is no perineal care agent that is speci- fically recommended for indwelling urinary catheters. In an effort to provide data useful to such a recom- mendation, the present study compared the inci- dences of CAUTI in ICU patients with indwelling
urinary catheters after applying four different perineal care agents.
The overall incidence of CAUTI per 100 catheter days was the highest 2 weeks after insertion of the catheter, which was similar to a previous study in which the highest incidence of bacteriuria was be- tween day 13 and 15 among patients with prolonged catheter drainage following pelvic surgery (Bartsch et al., 2008).