BACKGROUND The normal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level in patients with urethral catheterization is a controversy. We designed this study to investigate the effect of nontraumatic urethral catheterization without urinary retention on serum PSA. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy patients scheduled for urethral catheterization before elective surgeries were randomly selected and included in th...

BACKGROUND The optimal population rate of cardiac catheterization is unknown. One potential way to determine it would be to examine whether there is a population rate beyond which the yield of high-risk coronary artery disease (CAD) does not rise. METHODS Using a detailed clinical registry that captures all patients undergoing cardiac catheterization in Alberta, we determined annual populatio...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections commonly cause hospitalizations in community-dwelling geriatric populations. Our aim was to understand the impact of urinary catheterization on geriatric inpatients with community-acquired urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). METHODS Retrospective analyses were performed using electronic discharge summaries in a rural community hospital of northeastern Taiwan...

Background: Catheterization is the most common cause of pain and distress in children, which causes physical and psychological dysfunctions and disrupts the treatment. Therefore, the control of this type of pain should be considered as a priority for nursing care. The audio-visual distraction can be used to reduce the intensity of pain. Aim: The purpose o...

To evaluate the mastery level of clean catheterization-related knowledge and operational procedures for patients/caregivers that needed clean intermittent catheterization of spinal cord injury, evaluation sheet was applied to sixty cases of spinal cord injury patients or their caregivers to evaluate their mastery level of clean catheterization-related knowledge and operational procedures. Then ...

Pediatric Cardiac catheterization is considered one of the most diagnostic and interventional procedures available to cardiologist. Catheterization has decreased morbidity mortality for cardiovascular defects, this invasive process not free complications. The study's objective assess nurse's knowledge practices regarding pediatric cardiac catheterization. Descriptive -analytical designs are use...

results during the period from jan 2000 to dec 2011, at our center, 19 children less than eighteen years of age underwent urinary diversion with yang-monti’s catheterizable stoma. the indications for urinary diversion was neuropathic bladder in eight, exstrophy bladder in seven , valve bladder syndrome in three and persistent urethral stricture in one. none of the children found cic difficult d...

AIMS Real-time MRI creates images with superb tissue contrast that may enable radiation-free catheterization. Simple procedures are the first step towards novel interventional procedures. We aim to perform comprehensive transfemoral diagnostic right heart catheterization in an unselected cohort of patients entirely using MRI guidance. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed X-ray and MRI-guided tran...

Right heart catheterization remains necessary for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension and, therefore, prognostic evaluation patients with chronic failure. The non-invaSive Assessment Pulmonary vasculoPathy in Heart failure (SAPPHIRE) study was designed to assess feasibility and relevance a non-invasive artery vasculature hypertension. Patients will undergo right catheterization, cardiac res...

BACKGROUND Certificate of need (CON) regulation was introduced to control healthcare costs and improve quality of care in part by limiting the number of facilities providing complex medical care. Our objective was to examine whether rates of appropriate cardiac catheterization after admission for acute myocardial infarction varied between states with and without CON regulation of cardiac cathet...