Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals. The Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) in Hospitals helps hospitals prevent CAUTI in patients and improve safety culture at the unit level by implementing concepts from the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP).
â¢ PRIMITIVE (noun). The noun PRIMITIVE has 3 senses: 1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization. 2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived. 3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms. Familiarity information: PRIMITIVE used as a noun is uncommon.
Stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain. Those in a stuporous state are rigid, mute and only appear to be conscious, as the eyes are open and follow surrounding objects. The word derives from the Latin stupor. Being characterized by impairments to reactions to external stimuli, it usually appears in infectious diseases, complicated toxic states, severe hypothermia