A urostomy bag and a catheter are two different devices that can help drain and collect urine from your body. A urostomy is often permanent, whereas a catheter is not. If you have certain medical ...

The placement of a Swan-Ganz catheter allows specialists to diagnose or test for major heart issues without requiring you to undergo major surgery. Usually, it’s a diagnostic tool for people in ...

A Permacath is a catheter, a special IV device, that medical professionals insert into a blood vessel, likely in your neck. Permacaths, aka permanent catheters, allow less interrupted access to your ...

Researchers have found in a new study that Poly-L-lysine (PLL)–coated urinary catheters are safe, well-tolerated, and noninferior to noble metal alloy (NMA)–coated catheters in ...

Today, many catheter angiographic studies have been replaced by less invasive methods, such as computed tomography (CT) angiography and magnetic resonance (MR) angiography, that do not require that a ...

Liquet Medical Inc. announced it has received a second FDA 510(k) clearance for a new configuration of its Versus cathete ...