de Pezzer catheter a self-retaining urethral catheter with a bulbous end.
The code for a Quniton catheter is 36800. The quniton catheter is a catheter that is a dual lumen catheter that is used on a semi-permanent basis.
The doctor used a catheter to get to the patient's heart.
In this case it is not possible to re-use the catheter. Because of the requirement of sterility a new catheter has to be used as replacement.
You don't store an intermittent catheter, instead a new catheter should be used each time.
swan- ganz catheter
It is a special catheter used in Urology. As the name suggests it has three lumens, one used to inflate the ballon to keep the catheter in place, the second lumen is used to flush and irrigate the bladder with fluids to prevent clotting and blockage of the catheter after surgery, and the third lumen is for draining the urine from the bladder. The term used is Bladder irrigation.
if you are referring to the term used in a recent commercial it means catheter , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheter
In cardiac catheterization, a long, fine catheter is used for passage through a blood vessel into the chambers of the heart.
A catheter is a term used for any thin tube inserted into the body - not just a urinary catheter. So, you would use a catheter as intended.You would insert a urinary catheter and secure it by inflating the balloon.You would insert a central line catheter and x-ray it before use, then use it to administer medications.Etc...
It is a type of catheter most commonly used to catheterise patients. There are two types of catheter, one for males which is slightly longer and another for females which is smaller in size
It could be that the catheter used was too large for your urethra. The hospital I go to uses a size 16 catheter, which always causes pain for me. Or you could possibly have gotten a bladder infection from the insertion of the catheter.
Urine drainage