Catheter used in a sentence

Catheter in a sentence as a noun

It looks like the Linux penguin guy has a catheter.

I wonder why they couldn't use such a catheter for this guy; did that kit not have one?

Had another one 4 months later and a catheter later on.

In fact, it sounds like the tube they used to drain the lung was a catheter intended for urinary blockage.

Essentially, it is a urine bag strapped to your leg attached to an external catheter.

Who are these middle-class families that have such a need to manufacture their own jewelry and catheters?

> Who are these middle-class families that have such a need to manufacture their own jewelry and catheters?

The regions on which surgery can be performed depend on reach of epidural catheter.

If your plan is to be fed through IVs, have a foley, breath through a machine, have a butt tube, and foley catheter in for the last 10 years of your life be my guest.

My initial reaction as a person without a vagina is "Ew, isn't that a bit like installing a catheter so you don't have to go pee?

For chest surgeries you will need epidural catheter in mid thoracic vertebras.

Having once had a catheter installed, it's about the very last thing that I would want to have printed out - I really can't conceive of a worse example.

In epidural anesthesia, the catheter can only be advanced a few vertebra up and down from point of insertion.

So, with an epidural catheter in lumbar region, only lower limbs and lower abdomen can be anesthetized.

"After months of trial and error, Shaw hit on the idea of surrounding the tip of the syringe with six petal-like flanges, which could flare open to make way for the catheter port.

But \n her children couldn’t let her go, and asked to proceed with the placement of \n various devices: a permanent tracheotomy, a feeding tube, and a dialysis \n catheter.

If you need a catheter, wouldn't you want to talk to a doctor first?Doctors prescribe catheters, but, as I understand it, you typically get them, once prescribed, from a medical supply house.

His studies show that using a checklist for routine procedures like inserting a catheter dramatically reduces infection rates, saving lives and money.

I could well believe that the cancer risk is low and obviously is is uncommon for a dose of radiation to be large, but 'comparatively large' doses of radiation are given regularly in hospital catheter labs, CT/PET scanners.

And it seemed to be remarkably effective: a 2007 clinical study funded by Shaws company and conducted by the independent SGS Laboratories found the device prevented germs from being transferred to catheters nearly 100 percent of the time.

The reason I think this is a great problem for CV is that right now, only a nurse would be able to tell if there is a puddle on the floor from a leaking IV, patient's puke, overflown catheter bag, etc. Also is there air in a line, does the label on the drug match the prescription in EMR?

Convincing doctors to use a checklist requires overcoming their self-image of competence; it's too easy for a doctor to think, "I know I have to wash my hands before inserting a catheter, I don't need some nurse with a checklist to remind me."Of course, Pronovost's story is less dramatic than Semmelweis.