The company has created a novel microstructured catheter that has been validated to improve outcomes for stroke patients. Its patent-pending platform, called TRAP, or thrombus retrieval aspiration ...

Ectopia cordis is an extremely rare condition in which babies are born with their hearts partially or fully outside their bodies. It tends to go hand-in-hand with other birth defects in the heart ...

PROVIDENCE — Katelyn Holt has been a nurse for over a decade. Throughout her career, she has noticed that the catheters her patients receive fall short. A few years ago, Holt was driving home ...

Without intervention, the urinary catheter scandal would “jeopardize the integrity of MSSP,” CMS explained. It details that two codes, both for different types of intermittent urinary ...

The rule (PDF), if finalized, would exclude payment amounts for certain intermittent urinary catheters submitted from suppliers used for assessing performance year 2023 financial performance of ...

But she had never needed, or received, any catheters. Ms. Hennis, a retired nurse who lives in a suburb of Chicago, noticed that the company selling the plastic tubes was called Pretty in Pink ...

More than 100 million urinary catheters are placed every year, and the devices can be lifesaving, especially after surgery. But many of those who use them—about a quarter of users in developing ...

FORT MILL, SC / ACCESSWIRE / August 31, 2023 / Catheter Precision, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE American:VTAK) announced that the Company entered a distribution partnership with Somnotec (S ...

The document updates Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Acute Care Hospitals published in 2014.The Compendium, first published in 2008, is sponsored by the ...

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 ...

One mystery that was at last resolved at the press conference was the cause of Hamlin’s sudden heart stoppage: an exceedingly rare event known as commotio cordis. Commotio cordis involves a ...