In her case, the cause, says Sarah, was a urinary catheter, also known as a Foley catheter.
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Once the catheter reached the blockage, the doctor inserted a stent or, if the patient was getting the sham procedure, simply pulled the catheter out.
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The tip of the catheter is snaked past the object then the balloon is inflated and the catheter is pulled out, dislodging the foreign body.
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Spinal Singularity wants to tap into the $133 billion urinary catheter market with a connected catheter that allows you to control the flow of urine by actuating a magnetic valve.
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Another presents tracheotomy tubes, foot pump pipes, and catheter tubes.
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Is that a catheter bag full of urine beside him?
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The doctor inserts the embryo via catheter into my uterus.
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Gas is then pumped through the catheter, filling the balloon up.
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The paper's authors claim it could even guide a medical catheter.
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A catheter was then put in place to continuously remove fluid.
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The catheter itself was comprised of concentric, telescopic tube robot technology.
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Where do I find a balloon catheter to stop the bleed?
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Patients who still have tachycardia despite medication may undergo catheter ablations.
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Ellis: Having a catheter in was probably the most painful part.
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She also has a catheter, which I believe makes her immunosuppressed.
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It can be self-administered at home using a syringe or catheter.
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Only one catheter with morphine in the bend of her arm remained.
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Not the blood gas, nor the Quinton catheter, nor the arterial line.
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Treatment starts with an implanted catheter in a patient's brain, Desjardins said.
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She said she's noticed the outline of a catheter in Clinton pants.
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Likewise in the Men's at one venue I sometimes find a catheter.
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Although he needed a catheter, he kept forgetting and pulling it out.
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Oliver then showed the ad, featuring the show's recurring "Catheter Cowboy" character.
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This is especially true of doctors performing procedures such as catheter ablation.
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Other travelers might choose to use a catheter or wear protective undergarments.
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Doctors sometimes err on the side of caution, assuming, for instance, that when urine samples from a catheter grow bacteria that there is an infection, even though the culture result may simply represent bacterial colonization of the catheter.
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Next, the engineered poliovirus is infused directly into the tumor through the catheter.
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Once the total 6½ hours of infusion are completed, the catheter is removed.
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Illustration of robotic catheter navigation to the site of the leaking prosthetic valve.
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"When she got out of surgery, she already had the catheter," Sarah says.
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More than a third of patients reported that their catheter restricted 'daily living'.
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She is now virtually bed-bound and has a catheter permanently in place.
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Her duties include administering medication, documenting patients' progress, and inserting the occasional catheter.
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"Ashley underwent surgery where they placed a catheter into her abdomen," said the message.
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"Ashley underwent surgery where they placed a catheter into her abdomen," the message read.
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Under anesthesia, they would stick a tube down my throat and insert a catheter.
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Excretion is accomplished during interface via anal duct and throughout labor activity via catheter.
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Jason was moved to intensive care, where he had a feeding tube, catheter, intubation.
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A tiny catheter was inserted between her ribs into the space around the lung.
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Ninety minutes later, 17 million sperm are inserted into my uterus via a catheter.
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He has had a stent put in for each kidney and has a catheter.
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The only possible improvement would be the addition of a bedpan and a catheter.
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That said, a lot of catheter use is avoidable—most commonly when the catheter is used in place of a bedpan or to make incontinence easier for staff to manage, or because it was inserted during an operation and then left in afterwards.
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Yeah, hey it's a natural body function – would you tell someone to wear a catheter ?
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Dr. Grotas came in first thing this morning and removed my catheter from my dick.
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I spent the day in bed kind of feeling sick after having the catheter removed.
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An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter to treat pain relief during childbirth.
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When nurses tried to catheter him to drain his bladder, they couldn't find his urethra.
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Just 3 months ago, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery for a catheter valve replacement.
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But the hospital didn't have a functioning operating room where the catheter could be replaced.
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They pump nutrition through a venous catheter, install a palette of esters below her tongue.
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It never occurred to me that the biggest risk to her health was the catheter.
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Judy Jones, it seems, is not alone in wanting to keep her catheter under wraps.
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Sarah's biggest regret is not challenging her mother or the medical team about the catheter.
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At first, two officials took three stabs at each of Broom's arms with a catheter.
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I watched as under ultrasound guidance he inserted a double balloon catheter into the uterus.
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He filled the upper balloon with water to ensure that the catheter didn't slip out.
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Although he has no signs of rejection, infection, or bleeding, he still has a catheter.
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Those can include extra-long tweezers or a catheter with a balloon on the end.
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Osvaldo had difficulties sleeping, breathing and swallowing and had to be fed through a catheter.
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The final drug she would inject into his IV catheter was a paralyzer called rocuronium.
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He has a catheter, too — but it comes with no instructions, prompting frantic YouTube searches.
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Bloody urine drains from his bladder because it has been injured by a catheter insertion.
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He underwent a catheter-based procedure and later moved to the Intensive Care Unit for recovery.
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A nurse came in, put a catheter in me, and started draining fluid from my body.
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The connected catheter is minimally invasive, and can be inserted or extracted in your own home.
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The acquisition follows BTG's deal last year to buy U.S.-based cardiovascular catheter maker Roxwood Medical.
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The catheter is then removed, but the stent remains in place to prop open the artery.
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"There's a hierarchy of diseases, and catheter-associated urinary infections are at the bottom," she says.
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She came the next day to bring him back to the hospital to reinsert the catheter.
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The valve used in the new surgery was a less-invasive catheter valve replacement, he said.
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The device is inserted through a catheter placed in a leg vein and snaked to the heart.
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Sitting by her bedside in the recovery room, he says he first noticed blood in her catheter.
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"She'll have enough money to get her catheter changed for the rest of her life," Fieger said.
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The catheter needle itself is modeled and tracked as well, so the operator gets real-time feedback.
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His office said he underwent a bladder test by catheter and left the hospital later on Wednesday.
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They told me to take the foley off the catheter but didn't have a plug for it.
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Because chemotherapy administered by catheter drains rapidly from the urinary tract, surgery has been the usual recourse.
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Sometimes, the epidural isn't put in properly, and the catheter is positioned incorrectly in the epidural space.
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He is still wearing a bag and catheter [that] we're hoping the doctor will remove next week.
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"Let's talk about how that's going to help," I said, pointing to one of the catheter kits.
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Corrales is a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, and GEO Group forced Corrales to reuse catheter bags.
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It also agreed to sell Bard's tunneled home drainage catheter system to allay U.S. regulators' competition concerns.
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With TAVR, the only incision is a small hole in the groin where the catheter is inserted.
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Many have touted catheter ablation, which can cost well above $20,000, as a "cure" for atrial fibrillation.
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As they prepared to insert a catheter, they saw what looked like steam rising from her legs.
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After surgery, I had to have a catheter in for about a week to allow for healing.
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"With these catheter platforms, the morbidity and the downtime for the patient is dramatically less," he said.
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In order to soften the cervix, doctors will either use a device — like a type of catheter.
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"The catheter goes through the kidney through smaller and smaller blood vessels until the area that needs to be embolized is isolated, and then there would be any number of materials that can be injected into the catheter to cause the blood vessels involved to clot," Dr. Berns explains.
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The acquisition comes nearly a year after TE Connectivity bought AdvancedCath, a catheter systems maker, for $190 million.
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Next, we have the Foley catheter, which is placed in the cervix and gets the dilatation process going.
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And the final technique was the catheter plus oxytocin, a contraction-inducing hormone that your body makes naturally.
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"I had the procedure on Friday, removed the catheter on Saturday and was home Monday evening," she said.
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They did, and Bergman was able to quickly determine that a catheter wouldn't work for this particular patient.
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She left the room to get the doctor, who had to come in to do the catheter himself.
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Two hours after she arrived in the bay, the ventilator and brain catheter stopped her spiral towards death.
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She says the hospital had blood for a transfusion to give him and even had the right catheter.
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In Judy's case, the catheter had probably been in place for just five days when the sepsis developed.
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We let her in, only to discover that our tenant had pulled out his catheter and was incoherent.
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Mr. Adair came to work with a catheter because he could not afford to take unpaid time off.
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There was no ugly crying in hospital bathrooms, checking the color of catheter bags or mopping up vomit.
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He would be better protected by a condom catheter, which catches urine the way a condom catches semen.
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My hands are clenched because the doctor can't find a straight path to my uterus with the catheter.
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In 2004, a 43-year-old woman in Indiana had a catheter put in to help with dialysis.
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My hospital bed being wheeled out of the operating room after the catheter was removed from inside my chest.
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We had to order a plug from Amazon and use binder clips to kink the catheter until it arrived.
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The tweet had a photo illustration of the 93-year-old Mugabe with a catheter, the charge sheet says.
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This is typically accomplished by passing a catheter through the urethra and into the bladder multiple times each day.
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Then, members of the execution team placed a catheter and two intravenous lines in his body in 211 minutes.
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TAVR uses a catheter inserted in a patient's artery that is guided into the heart using advanced imaging techniques.
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Through this catheter, a tissue heart valve is guided into position and placed directly inside the diseased aortic valve.
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Cetrulo: He'll engage with a urological team to make sure he gets urinary function when the catheter comes out.
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Oliver first turned to the Catheter Cowboy in February in an attempt to explain the nuclear triad to Trump.
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The fact is that years after catheter ablation hit the market, we shouldn't have this many questions about it.
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A thin, hollow tube called a catheter is inserted into a large blood vessel that leads to your heart.
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Foos watched as the wife tried to help her husband out of his wheelchair and emptied his catheter bag.
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The catheter is removed, and the patient goes home with a small balloon (or balloons) in his or her stomach.
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Results showed that, in general, the combination methods led to a faster delivery than either misoprostol or the catheter alone.
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The next morning, a doctor came in and inserted a temporary access catheter into the right side of my neck.
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The actor, 70, underwent surgery for a catheter valve replacement on Thursday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, reports TMZ.
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These are the 59 startups that presented on the record today at the Computer History Museum: Spinal Singularity – Better catheter
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"So there's a complication with my bladder I had to have a catheter," Kim said while sitting in the hospital.
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He was getting his antibiotics through an intravenous catheter than ran from a vein in his arm into his heart.
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Could some type of skin bug have traveled up the catheter into his heart, and from there into his lungs?
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So they must replenish their insulin stock either with multiple daily injections, or by pumping insulin through a tiny catheter.
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During that procedure, an open-heart surgery team was prepared ... in case the catheter procedure was unable to be performed.
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With TAVR, the replacement heart valve is threaded into place through an artery via catheter, sparing patients chest-cracking surgery.
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It is threaded into place through blood vessels using a catheter in a procedure called transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
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New research published today in Science Robotics describes a robotic catheter that's capable of moving autonomously inside a living body.
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I would go to the clinic and the donor sperm would be injected directly into my uterus via a catheter.
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These include pain, discomfort, bleeding and bladder spasms during the insertion of the catheter and while it is in place.
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" In fact, he continues with a benign smile, "that's about as inappropriate as lubricating a catheter with hot sauce, partner.
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He had struggled for a decade with ventricular tachycardia and had received four catheter ablations — but still had rapid heartbeats.
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A thin tube catheter is inserted into a vessel in the leg and into the main vessel feeding the kidney.
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She thought he had an infection and put an intravenous catheter into his arm so his wife could administer medications.
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A nurse inserted a catheter tube, typically 16 inches long—up the urethra, through the prostate and into the bladder.
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The radiation had led to diarrhea, and she needed a urinary catheter; her chemotherapy drugs caused nausea, vomiting and appetite loss.
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Instead, the hospice obtained a physician's order to insert a urinary catheter, which staff tried and failed to insert multiple times.
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I stared at her bruised inner thighs, her sheets wet with urine and blood, her catheter pulled completely out of her.
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The next day, a nurse arrived at the motel, removed the catheter and put her in a taxi to the airport.
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There was some evidence of medical therapy, such as a catheter and a newer scar consistent with that of a tracheostomy.
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The ads, which are similar to a catheter commercial that airs on cable news programs, feature a cowboy speaking to Trump.
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Sources connected to Arnold tell TMZ, the 70-year-old Schwarzenegger went to Cedars-Sinai Thursday for a catheter valve replacement.
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We get a front seat in Kim's hospital room and on her couch with Jonathan for a discussion of her catheter.
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The pressure inside was already so high that clear brain fluid squirted out the end of the catheter into the air.
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The procedure requires a test that involves threading a catheter from the groin up to the heart to measure blood flow.
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The robotic catheter was able to sense and creep along the tissue walls to reach a targeted location within the heart.
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The autonomous catheter reached its destination in 95 percent of attempts, requiring around the same amount of time as a surgeon.
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"It's a small book but should have a major impact on reducing overuse of catheters and catheter-associated UTIs," says Davey.
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The patient swallows a capsule attached to a micro-catheter, and the balloon is inflated with gas as the capsule dissolves.
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The patient swallows a capsule attached to a micro-catheter, and the balloon is inflated with gas as the capsule dissolves.
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" Oliver said if Trump plans to keep watching the show, he plans to sneak information to Trump "through our Catheter cowboy.
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My 93-year-old father, a retired engineer, just received a $50,000 catheter-inserted aortic valve, which was covered by Medicare.
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After the doctor successfully gets the catheter in place, an embryologist brings in the embryo and the doctor inserts it. Whew.
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"About 80% of the patients in this trial had large vessel clots, which means that they would actually be candidates for mechanical thrombectomy -- for pulling the clot out using a catheter -- and the success rate of pulling a clot out by catheter is much higher than the success rate of dissolving a clot with a medication," Graffagnino said.
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If there's a power disparity between the two parties, well, that's about as inappropriate as lubricating a catheter with hot sauce, partner.
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The experimental vaccine involves a genetically modified form of polio, which is infused into the brain tumor through a surgically implanted catheter.
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Many use insulin pumps that deliver a set amount of the hormone to the body through a catheter 24 hours a day.
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Schwarzenegger, 70, had the surgery after he was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for a catheter valve replacement.
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The strentrode snakes its way into blood vessels through a catheter that's stuck in the patient's neck, rather than in the skull.
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On Wednesday morning, Bruce sat in an outpatient center at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha while a catheter pumped in Blair's stem cells.
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But the anesthesiologist had already visited me 12 hours earlier and placed a catheter in the epidural space outside my spinal cord.
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The others are reported under only limited circumstances, such as when related to a hysterectomy or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
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A single dose consists of 150 million highly purified stem cells delivered directly to the heart's left ventricle by injection or catheter.
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Specifically, the system involves an insulin pump with a catheter that infuses the blood with insulin, as well as a glucose sensor.
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In TAVR, a catheter is used to put a replacement heart valve into place through an artery, sparing patients chest-cracking surgery.
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Mussallem has said approval for intermediate-risk patients would more than double the pool of people eligible for the catheter-based approach.
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The culprit was two hard plastic pieces of a catheter used to pump in water that had become lodged in his rectum.
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A vibrant 24-year-old, she bears little outward sign except a scar beneath her collarbone where a catheter was once inserted.
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The Edwards valve is compressed onto a balloon catheter that is pushed through a blood vessel from the groin to the aorta.
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Parker made no plans for a brain donation before he died from an infection related to a catheter that treated pulmonary hypertension.
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A surgical team repaired damage to smaller blood vessels and left behind thin platinum coils from a catheter procedure under his chin.
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He was in the NICU two floors down while I was pinned to a hospital bed by pain, fear and a catheter.
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With this treatment, a fluid called dialysate (water, electrolytes and salts) is flushed into a patient's abdomen through a surgically implanted catheter.
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One intrauterine insemination, which we tried before I.V.F., was canceled when the most reputable clinic in Kabul forgot to order a catheter.
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With this treatment, a fluid called dialysate (water, electrolytes and salts) is flushed into a patient's abdomen through a surgically implanted catheter.
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Luckily, contestants won't have to starve themselves or prepare some kind of DIY catheter situation for their time in the box, at least.
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Using a catheter to carefully pick out the arteries directly feeding the erection, the doctors created their own blood clots near each fistula.
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Since the robot is also outfitted with a camera, the researchers believe that it could have medical applications such as guiding a catheter.
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I put on latex gloves, release the lever on the catheter and drain the blood into a measuring cup, record the cubic centimeters.
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In a statement Tuesday, NICE said patients may have to take antibiotics and have a urinary catheter for some days after the procedure.
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Inside, a nozzle moved up and down, shooting molten plastic into a mold, where it cooled around the end of a catheter tube.
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For the first few weeks after the surgery, a catheter will be inserted to drain urine, and sexual function will take longer to return.
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But it wasn't enough to impress the nephrologists, who decided to surgically place a catheter in my chest, to both drain and administer fluids.
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This is a central line catheter which allows for long-term access to blood and for chemotherapy drugs to be fed directly into her.
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Being a nurse myself, I felt comfortable because I know how to take care of a catheter and dressings, so I wasn't too helpless.
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Surgeons cut through the bottle using metal Mayo scissors, the kind used for stitches, and placed the man on a catheter for two days.
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Here, a catheter that measures pressure is inserted inside the artery either at the arm (same site as the cuff) or at the aorta.
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In a clever story called "Exotic Animal Medicine," a veterinarian is called from her impromptu wedding to place an emergency catheter in a cat.
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She pulled Oghi's pants down roughly, yanked out his catheter tube, and went to empty the urine bottle, the tube swinging from her hand.
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Does the average patient, relative or carer know that it could make routine surgery, cancer treatment or even catheter use more and more risky?
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Five years ago, a Mexican woman woke up in a hospital one morning connected to an endotracheal tube and a catheter.
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" In one ad, the man — known as Catheter Cowboy — explained that the term "clean coal" doesn't refer to the "physical act of cleaning coal.
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Who knows why, in "The Upside," Phillip picks the uncouth, underqualified Dell to drive him around, change his catheter and share his palatial apartment.
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The FDA-approved system (slated to hit the market in January) consists of three tiny capsules, each containing an inflatable balloon attached to a catheter.
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He didn't get service in his apartment and had to walk outside (with the catheter still connected to his penis) to call his insurance company.
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So instead of making me take the bus, he drove me to school himself, in a car that's fitted with a "Captain Catheter" bumper sticker.
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"It features a new catheter design for extended use in microgravity, combined with a mechanism that compresses, seals and sanitizes solid waste," Shelley tells NPR.
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Many women choose intrauterine insemination (ICI), wherein a medical professional inserts a catheter past the cervix so the sperm is introduced directly into the uterus.
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That is done with an embolization, meaning a catheter is snaked into the blood vessels of the kidney to find the right one to block.
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In one case a poorly dressed wound got contaminated with stool, while in another instance a child got an infection from an unused intravenous catheter.
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Doctors were prepared in case the catheter valve replacement failed ... and quickly decided Arnold needed emergency open-heart surgery, which we're told lasted several hours.
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The fungus causes severe illness with high mortality, especially among high-risk patients, like those in intensive care or who have to wear a catheter.
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I made a hole and plunged a hollow catheter seven centimeters through her right frontal lobe and into the mysterious fluid lakes inside her brain.
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The acidic stench of urine from the catheter hanging beside his bed fills the dingy room, littered with empty soda bottles, laundry and a wheelchair.
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From there, a surgeon took over, deploying a device from inside the catheter called an occluder to plug the leaky tissue surrounding the prosthetic valve.
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I know that a doctor punctured an artery in my groin and threaded a catheter through my aorta to stanch the bleeding in my kidney.
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Between 2011 and 2015, 603 American hospitals implemented new safety guidelines for catheter use, which may have contributed to the reduction in urinary tract infections.
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In both groups, doctors threaded a catheter through the groin or wrist of the patient and, with X-ray guidance, up to the blocked artery.
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"Multiple times, the execution team tried to insert a needle or catheter into Doyle Hamm's right groin, causing severe bleeding and pain," the filings state.
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In one case, she paid 1,200 pesos ($23) for a procedure that involved a rubber catheter that damaged her uterus causing her to bleed profusely.
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"But if you infuse CCK through a catheter until it reaches the concentrations normally seen after eating a meal, rats don't necessarily get sleepy," Levitsky said.
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Dr. Takeshi Arimitsu, who treated the baby, told CNN that the baby needed a ventilator and an umbilical catheter for infusion therapy when he was born.
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So the doctors showed him how to take care of a catheter in his abdomen and instructed him in how to do peritoneal dialysis at home.
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Britain's Convatec slumped to the bottom of the index after the catheter and colostomy bag maker reported adjusted operating profit had slipped 6 percent in 2018.
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Most recently, Stanford researchers developed a vine-like soft robot that can "grow" like a plant and could potentially guide a patient's catheter in the future.
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Mr. Purdy spent his time in Room 6C learning to shift from his bed to a wheelchair and being taught to insert a catheter to urinate.
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Scoville then used a suction catheter to slurp up Molaison's medial temporal lobes, the portion of the brain that contains both the hippocampus and the amygdala.
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Arteaga acknowledges that the hospital lacks even the basics: gloves, masks, antibiotics and resources for certain operations, such as replacing a catheter for a blood transfusion.
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The sensor, attached to the bottom end of the catheter, was able to recognize a heart wall, sense the presence of blood, and detect a valve.
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We have a catheter in the bladder, and then it's a much more delicate procedure to proceed and connect all the vascular tissue and the nerves.
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Mr. Espinal was taken to Albany Medical Center, where doctors scanned his body and inserted a catheter in his penis, his lawyer, Ruben D. Fernandez, said.
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Mr. Shapiro's shoulder was dislocated, his catheter was jerked from his body, and his head was injured, leaving him in the emergency room for three days.
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The tiny, cylindrical valve is permanently implanted using a catheter in the affected part of a patient's lung and regulates the airflow to the healthier parts.
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Narcan enjoyed great, immense satisfaction as he terrorized this youngster with a needle and stabbed him thusly in the arm with a large-gauge IV catheter.
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Most hospitals use a device connected to the urinary catheter for real-time objective measurement for urine volume and temperature, but nothing similar exists for their stool.
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By then he'd been in the hospital for 10 days and, now attached to multiple IVs and an indwelling Foley catheter, was as pale as the sheets.
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The doctors didn't want to use a catheter on me because I'd have to get a surgery to insert it and then another one to remove it.
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The vacuum pump to which the catheter was connected made a brief humming sound, then collapsed with a loud whoosh, like an elephant sagging to its death.
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All of the infections occurred in seriously ill children receiving intravenous medications through a catheter or central line, a device used to deliver medications such as chemotherapy.
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It can be inserted into the bladder through a catheter and is thought to stimulate the immune system in a general way that helps combat the cancer.
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In her mother's final years, her urinary tract would get obstructed despite wearing a catheter and often in the middle of the night, to her daughter's despair.
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The embryologist entered the room carrying what looked like a tiny white wand: this was the catheter, and our maybe-future-baby was nestled in its tip.
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For example, if bacteria from biofilms on a catheter pass into a person's urine and then enter the bladder or kidneys, this can lead to a UTI.
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Not having borne children into this world, it turned out that mine was smaller than the catheter used to guide the metal coils into my fallopian tubes.
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It wasn't sex she found herself afraid of, but rather the constant explanations about why her legs might spasm, or why she had a sub-pubic catheter.
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Acquazzino also noted that Prince has a catheter that connects to a main artery near his heart and runs the risk of life-threatening infection without proper care.
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The other main component is an insulin pump, often worn on the side of the abdomen, which has tubes that lead to a catheter that delivers the insulin.
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After taking a look at Lauder's CT scan results, Lee decided to quickly intervene and apply clot-busting drugs directly into the lungs' blood clots through a catheter.
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I watched as my residents ran in and out of the room, procuring the various catheter kits that would be threaded into her body to perform these functions.
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I told a lot of the girls: I left the hospital bed after having gender surgery, and went straight to the pot club, with the catheter and all!
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I was told to arrive with a full bladder, which helps push the uterus into a position that enables the doctor to insert the embryo via a catheter.
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During the procedure, for example, a tiny echocardiogram camera is placed into the patient's esophagus behind the heart to show where the catheter with the clip is going.
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The idea for the ER-Reboa catheter came to Dr. Todd E. Rasmussen and Dr. Jonathan L. Eliason in 2006, while they were deployed as surgeons in Iraq.
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There's a catheter attached to a bag that's taped to his leg, concealed in his work slacks, that slowly fills with tired spurts of urine throughout the day.
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The device is woven from a nickel-titanium alloy that can be collapsed and delivered within a catheter to the heart, where it's then expanded to repair a hole.
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An example would be (skip this if you're squeamish) inserting a catheter to suck out pooled fluid from deep within the brain — far past what it's safe to expose.
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But things got easier for Theler when, at 14, he was fitted with an insulin pump that regulated his blood-glucose levels through a catheter placed under his skin.
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Eventually the bladder can be stretched and weakened to the point where it cannot empty, and this can require that a catheter be used permanently to empty the bladder.
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With TAVR, surgeons thread a catheter with the new valve from the leg up to the heart, which then "crushes the old valve" and moves into place, Haythe says.
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Almost everything after that is fairly predictable, from Dell wrestling with inserting a catheter to beginning to get his life in order, causing things to drag in the middle.
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In some cases, they thread a catheter up into the affected artery and place a metal coil inside the aneurysm, filling it up and reducing the risk of rupture.
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One in five hospital patients in the UK and the USA has a catheter in place at any given time (the proportion is much higher in intensive care units).
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Around a third of people catheterized will develop bacteria in their urine after two to ten days, and a quarter will develop symptoms of a catheter-associated UTI (CAUTI).
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He had a large catheter in his neck, administering strong medications to keep his heart squeezing while providing his doctors with invaluable information about the pressures in his heart.
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Dr. Takeshi Arimitsu, who treated the baby, told CNN that when the infant was born, he needed a ventilator for respiratory support and an umbilical catheter for infusion therapy.
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Once put directly into the bladder through a catheter, BCG can activate the body's immune system cells and attract them to the bladder, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Samples included spots featuring a folksy cowboy, which were designed to resemble catheter ads but instead related facts about the nuclear triad, the demographics of urban areas and more.
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Caregivers unable to recognize injuries on a woman's pelvic area as signs of sexual assault and repeatedly trying to insert a urinary catheter instead, sending the woman to a hospital.
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Hours after Ms. Plummer went under the scalpel, she said, she was hustled back to a Hampton Inn just off the freeway, with a catheter sticking out of her side.
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Martha O&aposDonovan is accused of calling 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe a "sick man" in a Twitter post that included a photo illustration of Mugabe with a catheter.
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O&aposDonovan is accused of calling 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe a "sick man" in a Twitter post that included a photo illustration of the president with a catheter.
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The replacement the actor underwent nearly 20 years ago was "never meant to be permanent," so Schwarzenegger "chose to replace" it "through a less-invasive catheter valve replacement," Ketchell added.
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The primary risk of the gas is that I could hemorrhage out of my femoral artery—where the catheter is placed—but abstaining from it altogether is far more terrifying.
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Combine the two experiences—waking from a night terror to find yourself temporarily paralyzed—and the overall effect is about as pleasant as a recurrent UTI or botched catheter insertion.
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That 1997 replacement valve was never meant to be permanent and has outlived its life expectancy, so he chose to replace it yesterday through a less-invasive catheter valve replacement.
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The American catheter market surpassed $1 billion in 2014, and is expected to grow alongside a rising number of genital surgeries, according to a 2017 report from Grand View Research.
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Durbin did not notice any symptoms to indicate the flutter, according to his office, but he decided to undergo a procedure known as a "catheter ablation" after reviewing his options.
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Hospice denied his wife's requests for a catheter, and she and her son had to cut away his urine-soaked clothing and bedding, trying not to cause him additional pain.
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The primary risk of the gas is that I could hemorrhage out of my femoral artery—where the catheter is placed—but abstaining from it altogether is far more terrifying.
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But Dr. Timor-Tritsch had designed a new method for terminating these pregnancies — the double-balloon catheter method — and I would be the 14th person he'd be performing it on.
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When drugs failed, they endured an invasive and risky surgical procedure called ablation, during which doctors use a catheter to burn off each cell contributing to the heart's short circuits.
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Recently Oscar de la Renta teamed up with one such company, Care & Wear, on a "chest access" hoodie for those with a central catheter, but more such thinking is needed.
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Mr. Shapiro, who turned 80 last week, managed those legal battles even as he coped with paranoid schizophrenia and a prostate so enlarged that he is tethered to a catheter.
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Before these heart procedures, surgeons must know whether an artery is healthy enough to snake a catheter through it to the heart to remove any blockages and restore blood flow.
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In video from court shot by CNN affiliate WFTS, Judge Palermo referenced previous testimony in which Bland acknowledged she removed an intravenous catheter from her son's arm without medical permission.
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This approach can come in many forms -- vaccines, antibody or cellular therapies, or drugs -- and can be administrated through injections, pills or capsules, topical ointments or creams, or a catheter.
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Treatment was biweekly and involved two hours of chemotherapy one day, followed by two days of Alderson carrying around a device that pumped medication into his body through a catheter.
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The next year he underwent a procedure called catheter ablation to stabilize his heart rhythm; last week, he told reporters that he may need a similar surgery this off-season.
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In order to soften the cervix and ready it for labor, doctors will either use a device — like a type of catheter or medication, like oral misoprostol, to induce contractions.
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The procedure is non-surgical, and instead uses a catheter that is typically inserted in the femoral artery, to the right of the groin, and is threaded up to the kidney.
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Those are then fertilized with sperm from the woman's partner or a donor, and the strongest of any resulting embryos are reintroduced into her uterus with a catheter through the cervix.
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Elisabeth Ubbe was a young nursing student at a Swedish hospital back in the '90s when a doctor instructed her to place a urinary catheter for the patient in room one.
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His suggestion was an invasive procedure known as a bladder instillation, in which I would self-insert a catheter to inject a liquid into my bladder to reduce inflammation and discomfort.
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Home infusion therapy—which involves the administration of medication through a needle or catheter— is essential for patients whose illnesses are so severe that they do not respond to oral medication.
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For more than ten years, the CatheterOut group has campaigned to ensure that the use of every indwelling catheter is justified, to prevent painful and potentially life-threatening consequences of UTIs.
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On medication that set my veins afire, I remained dizzy and trapped in bed, on a catheter, with an IV in one arm and a blood pressure monitor on the other.
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"I could see the Foley catheter coming from Kira's bedside begin to turn pink with blood," Charles said, adding that he told doctors numerous times about the bleeding and his concerns.
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Amid so much carnage, it came as a revelation that simple protocols—always using a catheter to remove urine, turning a patient in bed every few hours—increased life expectancy dramatically.
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It is a dreadful place where our most august jurists ruminate over catheter gauges and needle sizes, and ponder whether to slice deep into the groin or puncture internal jugular veins.
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The deputy took Elliott to the hospital and got blood and urine samples, the latter with the assistance of a local police officer and a nurse with a 15-inch catheter.
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The system that uses a catheter to thread a new heart valve into place through an artery is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to open-heart surgical replacement of diseased aortic valves.
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MiniMed 670G includes a sensor that attaches to the body to measure glucose levels under the skin, an insulin pump that's strapped to the body, and a catheter that delivers the insulin.
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During the procedure "the catheter emits a pulse of painless radio frequency energy, which destroys the abnormal heart tissue and corrects the irregular heartbeat," according to a description given by his office.
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Immunotherapy can come in many forms -- vaccines, antibody or cellular therapies, or drugs -- and can be received through an injection, a pill or capsule, a topical ointment or cream, or a catheter.
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Called transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), this procedure uses a catheter, or tube, inserted into a patient's leg to deliver a life-saving valve into the heart while it continues to beat.
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Immunotherapies can come in many forms -- vaccines, antibody or cellular therapies, or drugs -- and can be received through an injection, a pill or capsule, a topical ointment or cream, or a catheter.
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"Manner" should be read to refer only to "mode of execution", Mr Francisco argued, not to fine-grained details like how a catheter is to be inserted into a condemned man's vein.
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Pearl is currently getting chemotherapy (Adriamycin, $173.25) with a healthy side of line items (IV catheter $100.43; chemotherapy administration, $48.50) every three weeks to decrease the chance of, or at least delay, metastasis.
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"The company immediately initiated an internal investigation after being notified of a potential connection between catheter-related blood stream infections and the Serratia marcescens bacterium," BD said in an emailed statement on Friday.
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This sensor, with the help of AI, a pre-programmed anatomy lesson, and pre-operative scans, told the catheter where it was located inside the heart and where it needed to go next.
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Yes, I know you don't trust Oana when she comes over twice a week because you "think she's going to steal your decorative plates," but she knows her way around a catheter tube.
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It was a familiar routine for the two-time prostate cancer survivor; infections were not uncommon since he began using a catheter that connects to his bladder through an incision in his abdomen.
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The final Parsons team created a pair of pants for Irene Park, who had a spinal cord injury that paralyzed the lower half of her body and requires the use of a catheter.
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That makes regular treatment for a chronic disorder like depression inconvenient to say the least, since ketamine can only be given through a needle or catheter right now (nasal spray versions are in development).
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The Medtronic system includes a glucose meter (an electrode under the skin), an insulin pump strapped to the body and an infusion patch connected to the pump, with a tiny catheter for delivering insulin.
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Or that every time medical practitioners insert a central line catheter into a major artery or vein, they wash their hands, use sterile drapes, and remove it as soon as it's no longer needed?
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Harkin asked a pallid man in a Make America Great Again cap what he thought Hillary would wear, and he predicted, "A pantsuit, a bulletproof vest, and a catheter," due to her failing health.
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One of the company's most cutting-edge devices is a new pacemaker called the Micra Pacemaker, a tiny device that can be inserted through a catheter and provides instant recovery for patients in need.
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Another opinion: If you are a binge-racer, be sure to add a catheter to your list of things to have handy to avoid interruptions in your rather intense TV viewing, and stay hydrated.
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Dr. Cuculich was used to treating patients like him with catheter ablation, which can take as long as 10 hours and leave patients so weak that they need months to get back to normal.
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He was the oldest of four, a high school football star who remained humble despite the trophies that decorated his room — now alongside a urinary catheter, pill boxes and equipment for his feeding tube.
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In the furor over the Cabana results, which have been presented at a scientific conference but not yet published, many have argued that the underlying data suggests that catheter ablation does help some people.
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The right-hander underwent a catheter ablation in 2012 to deal with atrial fibrillation, and he said last month that he might need a second heart surgery in the offseason to address the issue.
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" Asked whether it was fair to describe forced catheterization as "barbaric"—the label applied by an attorney in another Indiana case—Sliger said: "Honestly, I've never had a catheter, so I couldn't tell you.
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Philips said the system's strength lies in its flexibility and ease of use in a range of surgeries, including catheter-based treatment of tumors, aneurysms, obstructed blood vessels, heart rhythm disorders and defective heart valves.
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The only way to avoid injury altogether is to stay inside, swaddled in soft cotton, piss through a catheter, and slowly inch your way into a nice, cozy coma and then, in time, lovely death.
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Martha O'Donovan, 25, a graduate of New York University, has been accused of calling President Robert Mugabe, 93, a "sick man" in a Twitter post that included a photo illustration of Mugabe with a catheter.
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Excluding "complicated" and catheter-associated UTI, a female patient acquires a UTI when UPEC initially attach to the vaginal surface and then migrate into the urethra to infect the bladder (cytistis) or the kidney (pyelonephritis).
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"Risk factors include recent surgery, diabetes, broad-spectrum antibiotic and antifungal use (broad-spectrum means they protect against a wide variety of bacteria or fungus), and central venous catheter use," Kirgan wrote in an email.
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Medtronic PLC's Covidien unit has finalized a $20 million settlement resolving claims it improperly provided doctors free or discounted marketing services and practice development support to sway them to buy its ClosureFAST brand of catheter.
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So Gerri, or "Margaret Reynolds" according to the motel ledger, checked in to the motel room with Dixon, only to die alone after Dixon had attempted and failed to abort the fetus with a catheter.
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Nearly one third of urinary catheter-days are inappropriate in medical and surgical inpatients with 240 percent of catheters inserted in Accident and Emergency having no appropriate indication, suggestive that many catheters are inserted unnecessarily.
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The patient is taken to an angiography room, where a doctor threads a catheter into the abdomen and injects a dye that makes the blood vessels, and any leaks from them, visible on X-rays.
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" The replacement valve was "never meant to be permanent, and outlived its life expectancy," which is why the former governor decided to go for the less-invasive catheter valve route," Ketchell said in a statement Friday.
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Called "Emilio's Loving Tabs" shirts, they're equipped with a special shoulder panel that provides medical staff administering chemotherapy easy access to a child's chest catheter port, without requiring them to lift up or remove their clothes.
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A federal judge has dismissed a claim by medical device maker C.R. Bard Inc accusing rival Medline Industries Inc of obtaining a patent on a urinary catheter kit by deceiving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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After five cycles of Clomid (two with timed intercourse and three with intrauterine insemination, in which my husband's sperm was manually inserted into my uterus with a catheter), I was no closer to motherhood than before.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli medical device company Magenta Medical said on Thursday it has raised $15 million in funding led by Massachusetts-based Abiomed Inc, a maker of catheter-based heart pumps, and venture capital firm Pitango.
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A trial published in the Lancet in 2012 showed that although antimicrobial catheters reduced bacterial contamination of urine (efficacy), they failed to reduce the rates of symptomatic catheter associated urinary tract infections in routine practice (effectiveness).
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In one recent trial, a doctor in Boston steered a catheter through a surgical simulator, complete with digital beating heart, laid out on a table thousands of miles away at a test facility in San Francisco.
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When she hit 20 percent, a cardiologist threaded a catheter into her heart, where he inflated a tiny balloon and tugged, punching a hole through her interatrial septum to release a gush of pent-up oxygenated blood.
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By day six, January 27, I was starting to stabilize, so they pulled out the catheter (HELLO) and the grenade thingy (I wasn't prepared for that one, holy fuck was that an experience, even on pain drugs).
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Dr. Geoffrey Bergman, a cardiologist at Cornell, was also looking at this patient's CT scans to determine if he could use a catheter to fix the hole, by using it to insert a small clamp-like device.
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The fungus, Candida auris, can cause severe illness with high mortality, especially among high-risk patients, including those in intensive care units, those with a central venous catheter and those who have received antibiotics or antifungal medications.
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" So even though Oliver had so much material to get through during his April 9 show that the episode ran five minutes longer than usual, he still made time for O'Reilly — and for his trusty "Catheter Cowboy.
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Once she was set up in a hospital bed with a port and a catheter, I began visiting Carrol, who wanted to hasten her dying not only for herself but for her husband and son as well.
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In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssmann inserted a catheter into the vein of his arm and guided it to his heart to prove that the procedure worked (he shared in a Nobel Prize for his work in 1956).
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But the effect was most significant for women who received misoprostol plus the catheter — they were in labor for an average of 13 hours compared to the 17-18 hours participants who only received a single method endured.
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A 2014 Cochrane Review of 26 trials involving over 40,000 patients found that silver alloy-coated catheters "were not associated with a statistically significant reduction in symptomatic catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), and are considerably more expensive".
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Cetrulo: The reconstructive option we used to use was to take soft tissue from the arm or leg and wrap it in a tube and basically place a catheter through the center and make it look genitalia-like.
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During PCI procedures, doctors thread a thin catheter through the artery to place a tiny mesh cage known as a stent at the site of blockage to prop open the vessel and restore blood flow to the heart.
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These procedures and medications don't "cure" AFib, however, and if the problem persists it might require surgery to normalize heart rate — such as catheter ablation, which involves scarring a small area of tissue in the heart that's causing AFib.
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At this point, the bladder is unable to contract with any force to expel urine and patients then are incontinent because they are overflow of urine or are completely unable to pee and require a catheter to be placed.
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The FTC said in a statement the merger as initially proposed would have likely harmed competition by combining the top two suppliers in the U.S. markets for tunneled home drainage catheter systems and soft tissue core needle biopsy devices.
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When Hart's character quips (only half-jokingly, at most) that he'd "kill" his employer rather than change the man's catheter, it's impossible to watch outside the context of his past homophobic jokes and the debate they've continued to spark.
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The process is a complicated one, however, requiring skilled surgeons to manually guide a thin wire through a patient's arteries up into a damaged brain vessel followed by a catheter that can deliver treatments or simply retrieve a clot.
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The device, called an ER-Reboa catheter, was born on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the brainchild of two military doctors who saw soldiers die from internal bleeding that medical teams in small field hospitals could not stop.
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Over the past two decades, cardiologists have increasingly treated it with a procedure called catheter ablation, in which small plastic catheters are used to create scars in the damaged heart tissue to prevent the aberrant electrical signals from spreading.
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"We expect to be able to do it with small catheters and do a little miracle on the tip of a catheter and have a quick recovery, as opposed to what used to be open-chest procedures," he said.
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In wake of Trump defending Fox News host Bill O'Reilly as "a good person" after a slew of sexual harassment allegations against him, Oliver announced he was once again deploying the widely recognized "Catheter Cowboy" to teach Trump another lesson.
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After abnormal blood tests for cardiac enzymes and an electrocardiogram, she had an emergency cardiac catheterization, which is a procedure in which a catheter is threaded through blood vessels and into the heart's arteries to look for a possible blockage.
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Not to mention the extra charges for things like examinations ($2100.43 each), consultations ($248.50 each), IVs (catheter and fluids, $75 each round), anesthesia (inhalation, $200; injectable, $52.14), and medication (clindamycin capsules 75 mg, $35.16 for 28; carprofen caplets, $100.433 for 5).
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The replacement the actor underwent nearly 20 years ago was "never meant to be permanent," so Schwarzenegger "chose to replace" it "through a less-invasive catheter valve replacement," his representative Daniel Ketchell said in a statement the day after the operation.
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Bard's claim, dismissed without prejudice Friday by U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman in Chicago, was filed as a counterclaim in a lawsuit Medline brought earlier this year accusing Bard of infringing two Medline patents with its Bardex I catheter product.
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It has snaps on one shoulder and down one sleeve -- and with those snaps, when it opens up, it provides access to a child's port-a-cath or Hickman catheter, and that's where they receive chemo or have blood drawn.
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A "motorized drive system located at the base of the tubes rotated and telescopically extended the tubes with respect to each other to control the shape of the catheter and its tip position," describe the authors in the new study.
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A game-changer in the last few years has been a growing number of trusts introducing patient-held 'catheter passports', to give patients help managing their catheters and healthcare professionals a means to monitor their use, ultimately to reduce CAUTIs.
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"Now it has flipped," said Bill Colone, CEO of San Clemente-based Spinal Singularity, which hopes to launch a 'smart' catheter for men with spinal injuries or disease early next year after squeezing in its application under the old European rules.
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The company is racing with firms such as Medtronic Plc to launch the first transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) device that can help patients avoid traditional open-heart surgeries through the use of a catheter or tube to replace the valve.
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The infant's treatment began with a cardiac catheterization, a procedure that entails inserting a catheter, a long thin tube, into an artery, vein, groin, neck or arm and threading it through the blood vessels to the heart, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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They star a catheter-loving cowboy who will deliver facts about topics Trump has had trouble with in the past, including the elements of the nuclear triad, and whether or not killing the families of terrorists is a war crime or not.
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According to court documents released by the group Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, CNN reported that Zimbabwe authorities traced a tweet which said "we are being led by a selfish & sick man" and suggested Mugabe wore a catheter to O'Donovan's IP address.
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And by 2013, patient satisfaction scores (along with other measures, such as whether a patient got an infection from a catheter or was readmitted to a hospital soon after being discharged) mattered more than ever: They became linked to actual Medicare reimbursement.
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Medical workers in parts of Syria have been forced to let the wounded bleed to death for lack of bandages, and have opted to use catheter bags meant for urine to administer intravenous fluids to newborns because proper drip bags are gone.
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Meanwhile, Zhang and another physician on board — Xiao Zhanxiang from Hainan Provincial People's Hospital in Haikou — reportedly fashioned a makeshift catheter out of plastic tubing from an oxygen mask, straws from milk cartons, tape, and a syringe from the aircraft's medical kit.
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Even the sadder memories -- like helping with my father's catheter after he no longer could walk or holding his hand while he struggled to speak -- are ones I will cherish, as they remind me of a time when he was still here with me.
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The device named Micra pacemaker is delivered to the heart chambers through a patient's arteries through a catheter, unlike traditional pacemakers that are implanted through an incision and connected to the heart with a wired lead to send electrical pulses to correct heart rate.
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Already disenchanted with the absence of promised weekend clinics, the use of YouTube videos to teach catheter insertions and the repeated failure of her classmates to pass the required nursing exams, she said she was further disturbed by reports of state and federal fraud investigations.
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And on April 9, the "Catheter Cowboy" — so named for the product the cowboy pretends to sell before pivoting to politics — rode again, this time to inform the president about the dangers of continuing to support an alleged serial sexual harasser in Bill O'Reilly.
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I was in the I.C.U., inserting a central venous catheter — the patient was draped in sterile sheets under me — when there was another stream of pages from S. I had to halt the procedure to get on the phone; it was too distracting to continue.
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Using a micro-catheter, Dr. Monica Pearl and her team go through the femoral artery in the thigh up to the blood vessels in the brain, and carefully put liquid embolic agents, a type of surgical glue, to block blood flow and force the tissue to die.
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By the time I'd graduated from sixth grade, I'd had about a dozen EKGs, as well as a catheterization, a procedure in which a small tube or catheter is inserted into a vein in your leg and photographed as it makes its way toward your heart.
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One inserted the catheter tubes into a frame that held them still; one set the frame on a mold, ran it through the press and took it out; one removed the finished tubes from the frame and trimmed away excess plastic; and one inspected the final products.
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I get out of jail; in Northern Virginia, I am hospitalized once more after passing out somewhere in Arlington—I can't recommend removing one's own catheter, just in case that point isn't clear—then I am arrested twice in two consecutive days at Reagan National Airport.
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So, what doctors do is they thread a catheter up through the femoral artery, which is the main artery in your leg down by the groin, then they go up through the abdominal aorta and they turn either left or right depending on which kidney they&aposre going to.
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Treatment calls for intravenous immunoglobulin, a product distilled from thousands of individual blood donations, or plasma exchange, which requires placing a large catheter in the neck or groin to retrieve the blood that we filter through a plasmapheresis machine to remove antibodies and other factors causing immune inflammation.
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"Hundreds of medical workers and patients, including a malnourished woman carrying her daughter in a surgical robe and a man still hooked up to a catheter, fled in terror as a series of large explosions rocked a hospital (al-Thawra) in central Hodeidah," Amnesty International said, quoting a witness.
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As she spoke, however, she was waylaid by a vision of her mother in that hospital bed, so miniature and yellow, her jaw slack, absent from herself, held up between the bleeping heart monitor and the drip and the catheter, the tight knot of her long life loosening.
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Those other judges will have to pore over medical reports and sonograms — as a federal judge did in the case of David Nelson, another Alabama death row inmate, in 2006, before he died of cancer — to decide whether they can insert an 18-gauge catheter into Mr. Hamm's femoral vein in his groin, or scalpel him open to find a subclavian vein, or poke around his neck to find his internal jugular vein; whether the thickness of the catheter would preclude pricking a vein in his hand where a butterfly needle can no longer enter; and how to navigate around malignant lymph nodes while trying to achieve percutaneous access to his central veins.
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The yeast has been found in healthcare facilities and those at risk are most often immunocompromised, like people who have diabetes, who've had recent surgery or lengthy hospital stays, had a central venous catheter to deliver medication, and have been on a broad-spectrum antibiotic or antifungal, notes the CDC.
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As patients are transported by chunky VR goggles into a three-dimensional world of Japanese zen gardens or snowy hillsides, they become more tolerant of minor but painful procedures such as having a cut stitched, a burn treated, a urinary catheter inserted or a dislocated shoulder pushed back into place.
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It didn't make it any easier to bend over for the spinal tap, lay down on the table and spread my arms out crucifixion style while a nurse hooked up fluids, inserted a catheter, and prepped my abdomen for a six-inch incision that would become the doorway between then and now.
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I was warned ahead of time that there was no intercourse allowed for six to eight weeks, I would have packing inside the vagina for the first 24 hours, and I would have a urinary catheter in my bladder for the first two days so I didn't urinate on any fresh incisions.
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Imagine if you were unable to use your arms to do anything (let alone get dressed), or used a wheelchair and needed to have easy access to a catheter, or had a spine with a significant convex curve that made pressing up against any flat surface painful, or had muscles that spasm.
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The whales would excessively bite on the corners of the concrete tanks and peel off the blue paint, causing their teeth to wear down to the point where we, the trainers, had to manually drill a hole in the tooth and then invasively irrigate this hole with a hydrogen peroxide solution, using a metal catheter.
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It's been two decades since New York became the first state to require public reporting of outcomes from what's known as an angioplasty, a procedure that uses a catheter to insert a tiny balloon and inflate it to open clogged arteries and also uses a stent, a tiny wire mesh cage, to keep vessels propped open.
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"The fact is that catheter-associated UTIs are a common and costly problem but many hospitals are still not routinely using practices that are proven to prevent them," says Sanjay Saint, the University of Michigan's George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the leader of CatheterOut.
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A month ago the nursing home put a catheter through his penis and into his bladder, presumably because emptying a bag is easier to schedule into a shift than running over every time he rings a call bell asking for help, and safer than letting him sit in his own urine, which would further break down his skin.
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The central legal question in the case is whether the word "manner" in the 1994 law refers to the methods of execution authorized by the relevant states (like hanging, firing squad or lethal injection) or the protocols the states require (like the particular chemicals used in lethal injections or how a catheter is to be inserted).
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When I asked nurses to take my catheter out after two days -- it was uncomfortable and complicated the multiple daily walks the surgeon had recommended -- they immediately also took away the dilaudid pain pump and saline IV I'd been administered post-surgery and put me on a low, 5 milligram-dose of the opioid Percocet instead.
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About 36 hours later, Dr. George Fernaine, chief of cardiology at New York University's Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, was threading a catheter through an artery in my wrist to my heart and inflating a tiny balloon at the end of it to secure two stents in my heart to clear the clot that nearly killed me.
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"The rating includes quality measures for routine care that the average individual receives, such as care received when being treated for heart attacks and pneumonia, to quality measures that focus on hospital-acquired infections, such as catheter-associated urinary tract infections," wrote Dr. Kate Goodrich, director of CMS' Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, in a blog post announcing the release of the ratings.
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What's more, given what's just happened with Hart's Oscars controversy over past homophobic tweets, an extended scene in which his character refuses to change his employer's catheter — part of his job — because he's too squicked out to even say the word "penis," let alone touch one in a medical context, is played for a comedic effect that wanes as the scene wears on and on.
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But a surprising amount of weight was seemingly put on the fact that scans were made of his spine and that a catheter had been used in his spinal cord — features that I and my colleagues might not have recognized as predictors of dying (an MRI of the spinal cord, I later realized, was most likely signaling cancer in the nervous system — a deadly site for metastasis).
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His memories don't kick in until several days later, when he woke up in the burn unit of St. Barnabas Medical Center, in Livingston, N.J. Thinking he'd resurfaced from a terrible dream, he tried to shamble across his hospital room on the charred crusts of his legs until he used up the slack of his catheter tube and the device tore out of his body.
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