At the entry site, a small incision is made to insert a needle (a short plastic tube) into the blood vessel. Next, a catheter is inserted through the needle into the blood vessel and threaded to ...

Intramural needle ablation using in-catheter, heated saline-enhanced radiofrequency was effective in reducing ventricular tachycardia burden for high-risk patients failing one to five prior ...

As sophisticated as modern medicine has become, the best method available to doctors to insert a catheter is still to use their own two hands, a needle and some wire. Hugo Guterman, an engineer at ...

Radiofrequency ablation with a heated saline needle catheter was effective in eliminating clinical ventricular tachycardia in patients who did not respond to prior treatments, according to data ...

The UltraNav device is a dual-lumen catheter that enables side-by-side, simultaneous delivery of both ICE and transseptal needles or catheters through one dual-lumen device.

Solomon A. Mekonnen, Nour El Husseini, Asan Turdiev, Jared A. Carter, Ashton Trey Belew, Najib M. El-Sayed, Vincent T. Lee, Catheter-associated urinary tract infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...