URINARY TRACT INFECTION (10)    PERIOPERATIVE OCCURRENCE CATEGORY (136.5)

Definition Revised (2004):
 
2. Two of the following: fever (>38 degrees C), urgency, frequency,
   dysuria, or suprapubic tenderness AND any of the following:
   - Dipstick test positive for leukocyte esterase and/or nitrate
   - Pyuria (>10 WBCs/cc or >3 WBC/hpf of unspun urine)
   - Organisms seen on Gram stain of unspun urine
   - Two urine cultures with repeated isolation of the same uropathogen
     with >100 colonies/ml urine in non-voided specimen
   - Urine culture with <100,000 colonies/ml urine of single
     uropathogen in patient being treated with appropriate
Postoperative symptomatic urinary tract infection must meet one of the 
     antimicrobial therapy
   - Physician's diagnosis
   - Physician institutes appropriate antimicrobial therapy
following TWO criteria:
 
1. One of the following: fever (>38 degrees C), urgency, frequency,
   dysuria, or suprapubic tenderness AND a urine culture of >100,000
   colonies/ml urine with no more than two species of organisms
 
OR