News articles tagged with 'catheter'
Remove children's catheters as soon as possible to prevent bloodstream infections
— 1 Apr 2011 15:12 | HealthHospitals can reduce the risk of life-threatening bloodstream infections in children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by assessing daily the patient's progress and…
Stretchable balloon electronics get to the heart of cardiac medicine
— 8 Mar 2011 14:11 | HealthCardiologists may soon be able to place sensitive electronics inside their patients' hearts with minimal invasiveness, enabling more sophisticated and efficient diagnosis and treatment…
Cardiac catheter that can do it all
— 6 Mar 2011 19:20 | HealthIn an improvement over open-heart surgery, cardiologists now use catheters to eliminate damaged heart tissue in certain patients, such as those with arrhythmias. But this, too, can…
Portable, less costly peritoneal dialysis shows no additional catheter risk factors
— 3 Mar 2011 13:23 | HealthPatients with end-stage renal disease who opt for peritoneal dialysis experience no greater risk of catheter infection than those who undergo haemodialysis, a retrospective study at…
Turning to nature for inspiration
— 20 Feb 2011 16:09 | TechnologyTo build the next generation of sensors - with applications ranging from medical devices to robotics to new consumer goods - Chang Liu looks to biology…
OHSU fixes complex heart problems without open-heart surgery
— 4 Feb 2011 16:55 | HealthThe paediatric cardiac team at Oregon Health and Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital is the first in the region and one of a handful in the nation to implant a pulmonary…
Canadian researchers discover new way to prevent infections in dialysis patients
— 27 Jan 2011 18:05 | HealthResearchers have discovered that a drug used to treat dialysis catheter malfunction in kidney dialysis patients may now also help prevent both malfunction as well as infections…
Quality improvement intervention for ICUs results in increased use of evidence-based care practices
— 20 Jan 2011 16:28 | HealthA multifaceted quality improvement intervention that included education, reminders and feedback through a collaborative telecommunication network improved the adoption of evidenced-based…
Sheathless transradial intervention highly successful in treating complex lesions
— 8 Dec 2010 17:38 | HealthCardiologists from the Mayo Clinic performed sheathless transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to remedy complex lesions, achieving a 90% success rate with no radial complications.…
Checklist continues to stop bloodstream infections in their tracks, this time in Rhode Island
— 2 Dec 2010 19:55 | HealthUsing a widely heralded Johns Hopkins checklist and other patient-safety tools, intensive care units across the state of Michigan reduced the rate of potentially lethal bloodstream…