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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Data collected from hospital units participating in a national prevention campaign indicated significant ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A systematic literature review showed that interventions to reduce unnecessary central venous catheter use can ...

Right now, about one in five hospital patients has a catheter collecting their urine - and putting them at risk of a painful and potentially dangerous urinary tract infection, or UTI. Many of them may ...

One of the main problems in interpreting the literature concerning infectious complications of CVCs is the inconsistent use of terms and definitions. Furthermore, it is often unclear exactly how the ...

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 ...

MT. OLIVE, N.J. & CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Catheter Precision, Inc. (“Catheter Precision”), a medical device company focused on cardiac electrophysiology, announces the filing of a new U.S.

Predictive Value of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma in Tumor Recurrence and ...

LONG BEACH, California — A program to reduce urinary catheterization successfully reduced mortality in one Canadian geriatrics unit. For the program, catheterization was aggressively tracked, ...

A survey of acute-care hospitals in the United States uncovered that many hospitals use indwelling catheters for reasons that aren’t medically necessary, highlighting the opportunity to reduce ...