Catheters called Quinton catheters are used in dialysis to treat patients with chronic kidney disease or renal failure.

A Fort Lauderdale doctor accused of causing a stroke by putting a new catheter in the wrong place will pay some cash and take some classes.

15,16 When peritoneal dialysis is being performed for treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI) (discussed below), the catheter should preferably be placed as described above. However, when the ...

The effectiveness of various solutions instilled into the central venous catheter lumens after each hemodialysis session (catheter locking solutions) to decrease the risk of catheter malfunction ...

Between last summer and the start of this year, Medtronic racked up two Class I tags from the FDA for a pair of recalls that first concerned 1 million hemodialysis catheters and then another ...

September 30, 2010 — Central venous catheters are linked to hospitalization risk in long-term hemodialysis patients, according to the results of a prospective, observational study reported ...

A retrospective review of the pharmacy computer database was performed to identify hemodialysis patients with central venous catheters who received alteplase or urokinase for presumed catheter ...

Use of catheters to access the blood may put dialysis patients at increased risk of death, infections, and cardiovascular events compared to those who use other types of vascular access ...

Antibiotics can help ward off serious bacterial infections in kidney disease patients who use tubes called catheters for their dialysis treatments. But if antibiotics are used too often ...