PROVIDENCE — Katelyn Holt has been a nurse for over a decade. Throughout her career, she has noticed that the catheters her ...

During an ischemic stroke, blood vessels in the brain are blocked or narrowed. During a hemorrhagic stroke, there's bleeding ...

However, a commercial replacement gastrostomy tube is many times more expensive than a Foley catheter, and the two have never been compared. We compared the efficacy and safety of an all-silicone ...

T-DOC ® Air-Charged™ disposable catheters use tiny pressure-sensing air balloons to assess internal pressures. Barely larger than the diameter of the catheter itself, these balloons offer ...

The tunnel will heal over time and it serves two purposes. First, it makes it difficult for bacteria to climb up the tube and into your bloodstream, and second, it helps to hold the catheter in place.

Adding the T-DOC ® Air-Charged™ Anorectal Manometry Catheter to your EMG, nerve stimulation, sensation measurements, anal ultrasonography, and defecography studies provides essential ...

The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students ...

In veterinary medicine, we traditionally hold February as dental health month. For the public, that generally means you can ...

That bubble doesn’t go away, even if it’s pulled ... He found that placing a metal filament inside a catheter’s tube could release that anchoring bubble if pulled forcefully.

Joey Straw, an acute care nurse at Nashville VA , went about his rounds like any other day unaware that it would be the day he would save a Veteran's ...

My neighbor had a stroke and received a "clot buster" medication. Then, I found out my uncle had a surgery after a stroke.