Central venous catheterization is a critical procedure routinely employed to deliver medications, fluids, and for haemodynamic monitoring in hospital settings. The technique, commonly executed using ...

A urostomy bag and a catheter are two different devices that can help drain and collect urine from your body. A urostomy is often permanent, whereas a catheter is not. If you have certain medical ...

During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

However, some of the needed treatments, like inserting a catheter in a major blood vessel, require special training, which means the patient has to be taken to hospital. This is a real problem because ...

Here are 10 articles from Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality on catheters and catheter-associated urinary tract infections that caught the attention of readers in 2015. From 2009 to 2013, ...

Traditional methods to treat cardiac arrhythmias typically see cardiologists inserting a catheter into the heart to measure electrical impulses and determine where in the tissue the abnormal rhythm is ...