A urinary catheter is a medical device used to empty the bladder when a patient is unable to do so naturally. Catheters usually have a drainage bag to capture the urine. For bedridden patients, the ...

Anthony A. Bavry, M.D., M.P.H. Intensive care unit patients who required acute renal replacement therapy were randomized to catheterization in the jugular vein (n = 375) or the femoral vein (n = 375).

No restriction of oral food intake prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization is as safe as the current traditional NPO [nothing by mouth] strategy, results from a large, single-center, randomized ...

Samaritan Medical Center has begun construction on a $12 million cardiac catheterization lab, the first of its kind in the ...

Background: The optimal population rate of cardiac catheterization is unknown. One potential way to determine it would be to examine whether there is a population rate beyond which the yield of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are generally instructed to follow nothing by mouth, or NPO, before ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was just as safe as fasting.

George M. Pedersen of Southboro is an active, 73-year-old semi-retired manufacturer's representative who enjoys snorkeling and traveling. He was somewhat surprised two years ago when his cardiologist ...

from left to right: Katherine Thornton, President, Reading Hospital Foundation; Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz, Pennsylvania State Representative; Michael Stern, Tower Health President and COO; P. Sue ...