MeSH

Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity for injecting or withdrawing fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It differs from INTUBATION in that the tube here is used to restore or maintain patency in obstructions.

Insertion of a catheter into the urethra to drain the urine from the bladder at intervals as needed.

Year introduced: 2011

Passage of a CATHETER into the URINARY BLADDER or kidney.

Procedures in which placement of CARDIAC CATHETERS is performed for therapeutic or diagnostic procedures.

Year introduced: 2013 (1966)

Placement of a balloon-tipped catheter into the pulmonary artery through the antecubital, subclavian, and sometimes the femoral vein. It is used to measure pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary artery wedge pressure which reflects left atrial pressure and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure. The catheter is threaded into the right atrium, the balloon is inflated and the catheter follows the blood flow through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle and out into the pulmonary artery.

Year introduced: 1988

Insertion of a catheter into a peripheral artery, vein, or airway for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

Year introduced: 1988

Placement of an intravenous CATHETER in the subclavian, jugular, or other central vein.

Year introduced: 1988

Products used to seal the openings in BLOOD VESSELS from incisions or punctures made during ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES.

Year introduced: 2015

The use of balloon CATHETERS to remove emboli by retraction of the balloon that is inflated behind the EMBOLUS.

Year introduced: 2013