A Permacath is a catheter, a special IV device, that medical professionals insert into a blood vessel, likely in your neck. Permacaths, aka permanent catheters, allow less interrupted access to your ...

Some people experience leg pain after a heart ablation procedure at the insertion site of the catheter. Alternatively, they may have an allergic reaction to the medication they receive alongside the ...

Central venous catheterization is a critical procedure routinely employed to deliver medications, fluids, and for haemodynamic monitoring in hospital settings. The technique, commonly executed using ...

During a heart angioplasty, a doctor uses a catheter with a balloon to open a narrowed blood vessel in the heart. Typically, they insert a stent during the procedure. A stent is a mesh tube designed ...

We put together many aspects discussed above and we propose a practical work-up to help clinicians in the management of suspected CRIs (Figure 1). A clinical decision to remove a catheter suspected of ...