Indwelling catheters are soft, flexible tube that are used to drain urine from bladder to the collection bag. Indwelling catheters are used in urinary retention, urinary incontinence, during surgery, ...

Purpose: It has been proposed that reusable catheters are more cost effective and environmentally sustainable than single-use catheters intended for intermittent catheterization (IC). However, the ...

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, most health plans in the U.S. have to cover certain preventive health care without requiring you to pay a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance. That rule applies to ...

highlighting the evolving landscape of cardiac care solutions. Electrophysiology diagnostic catheters are used to detect and manage arrhythmias, irregular heart rhythms commonly associated with an ...

We aimed to compare long term suprapubic catheter (SPC) drainage vs Mitrofanoff conduit (allowing CIC ... SPCs had a much higher rate of unplanned surgery than Mitrofanoffs, creating a considerable ...

If you have been diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia — a problem with the rate or rhythm of your heartbeat — your doctor may recommend a procedure called catheter ablation to improve your condition.

Setting: Pediatric sedation suite and operating rooms in a tertiary care children's hospital. Patients: All pediatric patients with Broviac catheters placed (n = 253) at this institution over a 3 ...

The patient is a 26-year-old healthy woman, para 4+0, 3 living. She presented with urinary incontinence. Her last childbirth took place in a rural hospital in India 5 months before coming to the ...