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Safe and effective catheterisation for patients in the community [PDF]

, 2015
Approximately 450 000 people use long-term urinary catheters in the UK. Permanent catheters are used by 3% of the community population and occupy an estimated 4% of a district nurse's caseload in the UK.
Bardsley, Alison
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Fractured Indwelling Pleural Catheters

Chest, 2012
Indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) are increasingly used in the management of malignant pleural effusions. IPCs are designed to be secured in situ indefinitely; however, in selected patients, IPCs can be removed when drainage ceases. This case series reports complications of removal of IPCs that resulted in fractured catheters or necessitated ...
Fysh, E, Wrightson, J, Lee, Y, Rahman, N
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Indwelling Catheters Should Be Restricted in Primary and Revision Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Analysis After Changes to Hospital Standard Perioperative Treatment Protocol

Antibiotics
Background: Indwelling catheters are used in the perioperative management of patients treated with total joint arthroplasty (TJA) to facilitate fluid control, ease postoperative miction until patients are able to ambulate, and prevent postoperative ...
Matthias Schnetz, Tim Jakobi, Larissa Ewald, Alexander Klug, Matthias Münzberg, Yves Gramlich   +5 more
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Indwelling Pleural Catheters

, 2022
Indwelling pleural catheters (IPC) are now being considered worldwide for patients with recurrent pleural effusions. It is commonly used for patients with malignant pleural effusions (MPE) and can be performed as outpatient based day care procedure. In malignant pleural effusions, indwelling catheters are particularly useful in patients with trapped ...
Hugh Welch, Rahul Bhatnagar
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A novel intervention to reduce noninfectious and infectious complications associated with indwelling urethral catheters in hospitalized older patients: a quasi-experimental study

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Indwelling urethral catheters are widely used in clinical settings. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection has been recognized as a common adverse event in older patients.
Fang-Wen Hu, Chun-Yin Yeh, Chi-Chang Huang, Hsiu-Chi Cheng, Cheng-Han Lin, Chia-Ming Chang   +5 more
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Piezoresistor-Embedded Multifunctional Magnetic Microactuators for Implantable Self-Clearing Catheter [PDF]

, 2019
Indwelling catheters are used widely in medicine to treat various chronic medical conditions. However, chronic implantation of catheters often leads to a premature failure due to biofilm accumulation.
Bentley, R. Timothy, Lee, Albert, Lee, Hyowon, Yang, Qi   +3 more
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Coil-Assisted Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (CARTO) for the Treatment of Portal Hypertensive Variceal Bleeding: Preliminary Results. [PDF]

, 2014
ObjectivesTo describe the technical feasibility, safety, and clinical outcomes of coil-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (CARTO) in treating portal hypertensive non-esophageal variceal hemorrhage.MethodsFrom October 2012 to December 2013, 20 ...
Busuttil, Ronald, Durazo, Francisco, Goldstein, Leonard, Gomes, Antoinette S, Han, Steven-Huy, Kee, Stephen T, Lee, Edward W, Loh, Christopher T, McWilliams, Justin, Moriarty, John, Saab, Sammy, Tafti, Bashir A   +11 more
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Washout policies in long-term indwelling urinary catheterisation in adults [PDF]

, 2017
Background  People requiring long-term bladder draining with an indwelling catheter can experience catheter blockage. Regimens involving different solutions can be used to wash out catheters with the aim of preventing blockage.
Airaksinen, Andersson, Atkins, Bach, Bibby, Bruun, Capewell, Davies, Elliott, Elliott, Evans, Garibaldi, Gelman, Getliffe, Getliffe, Getliffe, Getliffe, Getliffe, Gould, Hagen, Hamory, Hesse, Hesse, Kennedy, Kennedy, King, Kohler-Ockmore, Kunin, Linsenmeyer, McNicoll, Meyers, Moore, Muncie, Padawer, Pellowe, Pomfret, Robertson, Roe, Ruwaldt, Saint, Sinclair, Stark, Stickler, Sørbye, Vainrub, Waites, Ware, Warren, Wilks, Zigmond   +49 more
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A prospective evaluation on external jugular vein cut-down approach for TIVAD implantation [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Totally implantable venous access devices can be implanted both by percutaneous approaches and by surgical approaches with cephalic vein or external jugular vein cut-down techniques that are related to low intraoperative complication rates ...
AVALLONE, MARCELLO, CAVALLARO, Giuseppe, DE ANGELIS, FRANCESCO, IORIO, OLGA, IOSSA, ANGELO, Matteo, Massaro, MATTIA, Consalvo, SILECCHIA, Gianfranco   +7 more
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Perforation during Indwelling Catheter Pacing [PDF]

Circulation, 1966
Nine patients paced with an indwelling catheter as a preoperative measure prior to synchronous pacer implantation were observed at surgery to have catheter perforation into the pericardium within 1 to 14 days. Such perforation may result from mechanical systole when the catheter tip becomes fixed in the trabeculae carneae of the right ventricular ...
D A, Nathan, S, Center, R E, Pina, A, Medow, W, Keller   +4 more
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