A small, flexible tube, usually containing a trocar at one end, that is inserted into a bodily cavity, duct, or vessel to drain fluid or administer a substance such as a medication.
Letter: c
The insertion of a catheter into a body cavity, duct or vessel.
Community Acquired Pneumonia
A layer composed of glycocalyx located outside the bacterial cell wall; serves different functions, including protecting cell against the environment, providing ability for the cell to move on solid surfaces, or allowing the bacteria to tenaciously attach to tissue, teeth, catheter surfaces, implants, etc., so they are not flushed away by body secretions.
Deep-seated pyogenic (producing pus) infection of several contiguous hair follicles, with formation of connecting sebaceous pockets-usually containing Staphylococcus.
Compression on the heart from fluids building up in the pericardium (sac around the heart).
A protective solution, usually chilled, containing potassium and dextrose, that significantly reduces myocardial injury during the arrest and reperfusion phases of cardiac surgery. It does so by inducing a rapid and complete diastolic arrest, decreasing myocardial energy requirements, reducing ischemic damage during the arrest phase, and minimizing reperfusion injury once coronary blood flow is restored. Chilling the solution with contaminated ice has resulted in several infections.
The point at the lower end of the trachea separating the openings into the right and left lung. If touched by instruments, elicits reflexive vagal nerve responses.
Another name for an X-ray image intensifier (XRII), refers to a special image intensifier device used in medical imaging increasingly used during interventional procedures.
A human who carries a pathogen but is asymptomatic.