For critically ill patients requiring dialysis, insertion of the catheter in a vein in the neck does not appear to reduce the risk of infection compared to vein access in the upper leg, except for ...

A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is a small, thin, and flexible tube inserted into a vein in the upper arm and guided into the superior vena cava to deliver intravenous fluids, ...

A robot has been designed with a hybrid powerstrain structure which will allow a precise, repetitive, planned and controlled insertion of needles or catheters, enhancing the procedures currently used.

Arterial catheterization allows for the continuous recording of arterial pressure measurements and can be used to adjust the doses of vasoactive drugs that are administered for hemodynamic support in ...

As sophisticated as modern medicine has become, the best method available to doctors to insert a catheter is still to use their own two hands, a needle and some wire. Hugo Guterman, an engineer at Ben ...

Umbilical catheter placement is a routine neonatal emergency procedure that has large variability in technical methods. Commonly used methods are unable to accurately estimate insertion lengths, and X ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A catheter dressing incorporating a chlorhexidine gluconate gel pad may reduce the presence of microorganisms at ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Big Data may provide some answers to the many questions surrounding advanced catheter-based pulmonary embolism (PE) therapies, a buzzing field that otherwise has little evidence ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of 1,196 tunneled catheters placed in nephrology services that use antibiotics, four resulted in bloodstream ...

Comparative Effects of Three Cytokine Regimens After High-Dose Cyclophosphamide: Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF), and Sequential ...