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Antibiotics, 2023 Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the second most common bacterial infection with high recurrence rates and can involve biofilm formation on patient catheters. Biofilms are inherently tolerant to antimicrobials, making them difficult to eradicate. Many
Sophia Hawas +4 more
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Percutaneous Ultrasound-guided Pigtail Catheter for Pleural Effusions: Efficacy and Safety
Oman Medical Journal, 2021 Objectives: Small-bore pigtail catheters are now being used more frequently for draining pleural effusions. This study aimed to measure the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of these devices in different clinical conditions.
B. Jayakrishnan +6 more
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Ultrasound visibility of regional anesthesia catheters: an in vitro study [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2012 BackgroundUltrasound subjective visibility of in-plane needles is correlated with the intensity difference between the needle surface and the background. Regional anesthesia catheters are difficult to visualize by an ultrasound.
Junji Takatani +4 more
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology, 2023 The subclavian vein is an uncommon route for tunneled hemodialysis catheter (tHDC) placement because of its potency for future dialysis access. However, when favored access routes have been exhausted because of repeated catheterization or limited life ...
Jimin Yoo +5 more
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Continuous peripheral nerve blocks compared to thoracic epidurals or multimodal analgesia for midline laparotomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2021 Background Continuous peripheral nerve blocks (CPNBs) have been investigated to control pain for abdominal surgery via midline laparotomy while avoiding the adverse events of opioid or epidural analgesia.
Jonathan G. Bailey +5 more
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Willingness to participate in a randomized trial comparing catheters to fistulas for vascular access in incident hemodialysis patients: an international survey of nephrologists [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Current guidelines favor fistulas over catheters as vascular access. Yet, the observational literature comparing fistulas to catheters has important limitations and biases that may be difficult to overcome in the absence of randomization ...
Dulai, Mandeep +10 more
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Ekonomika Nauki, 2018 As part of the implementation of the approved presidential decrees “On the strategy of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation” and the national project “Science”, the Russian Federation should take leading positions in a ...
T. N. Erivantseva
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Clinical applications of custom-made vaginal cylinders constructed using three-dimensional printing technology. [PDF]
, 2016 PurposeThree-dimensional (3D) printing technology allows physicians to rapidly create customized devices for patients. We report our initial clinical experience using this technology to create custom applicators for vaginal brachytherapy.Material and ...
Cunha, Adam +6 more
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Intensive Care Medicine, 2022 Short-term intravascular catheters are instrumental in the care of critically ill patients to allow safe intravenous administration of medications or fluid resuscitation and the monitoring of hemodynamic parameters. Due to high utilization rate of intravascular catheters, infections associated to these devices represent an important burden of ...
Buetti, Niccolo +2 more
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