Electrophysiologic testing using an indwelling pacing catheter

Indwelling Small Pleural Catheter

Study objectives: To evaluate the clinical safety, efficacy, and cost of a small indwelling pleural catheter (7F, Turkel Safety Thoracentesis System [Sherwood, Davis, and Geek; St. Louis]) vs repeated needle thoracentesis or closed tube thoracostomy as a means to drain a large-volume pleural effusion. Setting: Inpatients in a tertiary care university teaching hospital in urban Chicago. Design: ...

A multipurpose catheter for electrophysiologic and hemodynamic monitoring plus atrial pacing.

A new multipurpose flow-directed pulmonary arterial catheter has been developed and evaluated in 30 patients with acute cardiopulmonary dysfunction. The catheter permits monitoring of the bipolar atrial electrogram, pulmonary arterial or wedge pressure, central venous pressure, and cardiac output, plus atrial pacing. The standard Swan-Ganz thermistor-equipped catheter was modified to incorporat...

An indwelling urinary catheter for the 21st century.

What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? A vast literature has been published on the prevalence, morbidity and microbiology of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Research and development in recent years has focused on producing antibacterial coatings for the indwelling Foley catheter with insufficient attention to its design. This article provides a critical examinat...

Care of the patient with an indwelling catheter.

Bronchial erosion by an indwelling central venous catheter.

Despite improved technology, central venous catheters are associated with many complications that occur usually within 48 h of placement. We report a 42-year-old man with a rare erosion of a venous catheter (Silastic) into a bronchus 2 years after its insertion.