Purple Urine Bag Syndrome: Time for Awareness

Purple urine bag syndrome occurs commonly in long-term catheterized patients causing significant stress for patients, care takers, and health care providers. This may lead to unwarranted investigation as well as treatment when not identified early. Demographic changes in Indian population with incre...

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Autores principales: Alex, Reginald, Manjunath, Krishna, Srinivasan, Rajan, Basu, Gopal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25811004
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.152270
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description Purple urine bag syndrome occurs commonly in long-term catheterized patients causing significant stress for patients, care takers, and health care providers. This may lead to unwarranted investigation as well as treatment when not identified early. Demographic changes in Indian population with increasing geriatric care make it a case to increase awareness of this condition among health care providers in primary and secondary care settings.
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spelling pubmed-43669852015-03-25 Purple Urine Bag Syndrome: Time for Awareness Alex, Reginald Manjunath, Krishna Srinivasan, Rajan Basu, Gopal J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Purple urine bag syndrome occurs commonly in long-term catheterized patients causing significant stress for patients, care takers, and health care providers. This may lead to unwarranted investigation as well as treatment when not identified early. Demographic changes in Indian population with increasing geriatric care make it a case to increase awareness of this condition among health care providers in primary and secondary care settings. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4366985/ /pubmed/25811004 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.152270 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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