Cathflo Activase should be used with caution in the presence of known or suspected infection in the catheter. Using Cathflo Activase in patients with infected catheters may release a localized infection into the systemic circulation. As with all catheterization procedures, care should be used to ma...
Medical tests are something that everyone has to go through at some time or the other. Know more about the types, procedures and importance of medical health tests.
Cardiac catheterization.If you might have blockages in your heart arteries, you can get this test, in which a long, thin flexible tube called a catheter is inserted in a blood vessel and guided to your heart. Dye can then be injected to help the arteries show up on X-rays. Heart Disea...
There are many different types of tertiary care services, including brain surgery, burn care, cancer therapy, dialysis, magnetic...
There are many different types of tertiary care services, including brain surgery, burn care, cancer therapy, dialysis, magnetic...
Cardiac catheterization, which uses a catheter to measure pressure and blood flow in your heart MR angiogram or CT angiogram, which uses MRI or CT to make images of the blood vessels in your legs, neck, and head Echocardiogram, which is a special ultrasound that can show your doctor the st...
A catheter is a long, thin tube inserted up the urethra or through a hole in the abdominal wall into the bladder to drain urine (suprapubic catheter). Draining the bladder this way has been used to treat incontinence for many years. Bladder catheterization may be a temporary or a permanent...
If troponin levels are elevated high and the ECG (EKG, electrocardiogram) indicates an acute heart attack, immediate cardiac intervention such as catheterization, stents, or a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The high-sensitive troponin test can help diagnose heart conditions such as obstructive...
Suprapubic catheters were used in 94 women and intermittent self-catheterization in seven to manage urinary retention after surgery. We used a standardized protocol to record days to adequate postoperative voiding. Univariable and multivariable regression analyses were used to determine clinical, uro...
A cardiac catheterization unit Regardless of where the patient is sent, several basic treatments may be started. Which ones are given depends on the severity of the symptoms and the underlying disease. At least one IV line will be started. This line is used to give medication or fluids. ...