UTI without urinary catheter

Acute UTI confined to the bladder:

• Dysuria, frequency, urgency, hematuria, and/or suprapubic pain - No signs or symptoms of upper tract or systemic infection.

Acute UTI accompanied by signs or symptoms of extension of infection beyond bladder:

• Fever, chills, rigors, significant fatigue or malaise, nausea, vomiting

• Flank pain, CVA tenderness

• Pelvic or perineal pain in men

Patients may or may NOT have cystitis symptoms.

Bacteremic UTI and “urosepsis” are managed the same as acute complicated UT