Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers at the University of Michigan reviewed scientific literature and gathered a group of experts to ...

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 ...

Inappropriate use of urinary catheters seems to persist, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers conducted a prospective review of 436 patients ...

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 ...

Indwelling devices like catheters cause roughly 25% of hospital infections, but ongoing efforts to reduce catheter use and misuse haven't succeeded as much as health care workers would like. But most ...

Traditional open heart surgery remains the preferred method to repair many heart defects, according to Dr. Scott Burke, Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne.

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 ...

Abdominal lavage is used in laboratory rodents for a variety of applications but carries an inherent risk of abdominal organ laceration; therefore, personnel carrying out this procedure must have ...

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 ...