Bryce Clark led four Camden Catholic players in double figures with 21 points as the fourth-seeded Fighting Irish earned a 63-50 win over fifth-seeded Union Catholic, No. 10 in the NJ.com Top 20 ...

The incidence rate of pulmonary embolism-related hospitalizations in pediatric patients revealed that this outcome occurred infrequently; however, having acute PE raised the odds for in-hospital ...

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Minister of Health and Wellness, Christopher Tufton, is commending the establishment of a state-of-the-art cardiac catheterisation laboratory (cath lab) at the private health ...

Particular attention should be given to those patients who develop chills or fever that are associated with catheter flushing. Superficial infections at the insertion or exit site, or along a ...

Alternating lumens or splitting doses for intravenous antibiotic administration in patients with multilumen catheters suspected ... However, when treating pediatric patients, the benefits of ...

Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind ...

A Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) + official said today on LinkedIn that the company won CE mark for its Crescent RA jugular dual lumen catheter ... an indication for use in pediatric patients with acute ...

The word “catheter” comes from Greek, meaning “to let or send down.” Catheters were used as early as 3,000 B.C. to relieve painful urinary retention. In those times, many materials were used to form a ...

Fourteen CLABSI occurred in 13 patients. Overall CLABSI incidence (per 1000 CVC days) was 0.95 (9.71 for silastic percutaneous CVC, 7.65 for other CVC, 1.97 for Broviac, 0.18 for Port-a-cath). CVC ...

1. Newman DK, Cumbee RP, Rovner ES. Indwelling (transurethral and suprapubic) catheters. In: Newman DK, Rovner ES, Wein AJ, editors. Clinical Application of Urologic ...

A surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection in the part of the body where a surgery took place. SSIs can generally be treated with antibiotics but may require additional medical care. SSIs are ...

Two more people have been potentially cured of HIV after receiving stem cell transplants to treat blood cancer or bone marrow disease, physicians reported Monday.