Reusable catheter strategies may be as safe as single-use devices for preventing UTIs, but questions remain about their practical use.

A new study shares the results of a clinical trial into the use of a catheter coated with a bacteria-resistant material. The ...

Amid growing interest in interventional stroke treatments, some questions have recently emerged regarding the use of various catheters for aspiration thrombectomy that aren’t approved for that purpose ...

Hillview resident Gerri Cooper-Cox is wearing shorts this summer for the first time in 10 years. That's how long it's been since she developed varicose veins in her right calf that made her ...

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their ...

If you ask your doctor where a single-use anal catheter has been before the doctor uses it on you, there should be only one answer: in the packaging. Any other answer should be unacceptable.

A medical device startup co-founded by five University of Utah graduates and students has taken on the challenge of combating the 100,000 deaths from hospital-acquired infections transmitted from ...

Using a 4-Fr instead of a 6-Fr guiding catheter reduces the incidence of access-site-related complications in patients undergoing transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to ...

August 24, 2010 — Reminder systems may reduce catheter-associated urinary infections (CAUTIs) and catheter use in hospitalized patients, according to the results of a systematic review and ...

Insulated microdiameter wire designs can be manufactured reliably down to sizes of around 0.001 in. (0.026 mm). Most applications currently use diameters within the range of 0.0025–0.0075 in. (0.064–0 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Continuous peripheral nerve block has been shown to be superior to traditional opioid-based analgesia in terms ...