A Naples doctor who is board certified in radiology finished a catheter placement — then learned he had done the procedure on the wrong patient. That’s in the Florida Department of Health ...

Hospital patients often have tubes placed in their veins to deliver medication or take blood samples. But a new study suggests their doctors don't always know about it. The study, of doctors at three ...

A New Jersey surgeon has had his license yanked over allegations he inserted used catheters into the rectums of at least five patients, state authorities say. Dr. Sanjiv K. Patankar, who practices in ...

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NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Treating blood clots, particularly those in the legs or lungs, can be a delicate process. A Temple Health doctor saw a need for a better way to do it, and he invented a ...

If you ask your doctor where a single-use anal catheter has been before the doctor uses it on you, there should be only one answer: in the packaging. Any other answer should be unacceptable.

The placement of a Swan-Ganz catheter allows specialists to diagnose or test for major heart issues without requiring you to undergo major surgery. Usually, it’s a diagnostic tool for people in ...

A Middlesex County surgeon's medical license has been temporarily suspended for allegedly reusing single-use rectal catheters on multiple patients during diagnostic testing, putting his patients' ...

If you’ve ever had a urinary catheter, you’ll know they’re unpleasant. If you haven’t, imagine someone threading a tube up through your urethra into your bladder and … yes, yes they hurt. Mercifully, ...

Six advanced cardiac procedures were carried out for the first time in Egypt’s Aswan governorate without open-heart surgery, ...

William Zoeller and Michael Baxter alleged that a 72-year-old South Florida man shouldn't have died during non-emergency surgery. William D. Zoeller and Michael V. Baxter, Schuler Halvorson Weisser ...