Catheters are generally inserted into a body cavity, duct, or blood vessel. They may be thin, flexible tubes called soft catheters or thicker and more inflexible catheters called hard catheters.

A urinary catheter is a small, flexible tube that is inserted into your bladder to discharge pee. A water-filled balloon holds it inside your bladder. You may notice some blood or pee surrounding ...

Irregular heartbeats affect more than 4 million Americans, and for many, the treatment is cardiac ablation—a procedure that ...

A urinary catheter is a hollow, partially flexible tube that collects urine from the bladder and leads to a drainage bag. They come in many sizes and types. Catheters may be necessary in cases ...

A catheter is a thin, flexible tube that’s inserted into your bladder to drain urine. The urine exits into a collection bag outside your body. Some catheters are temporary, while others are worn ...

If the test shows there’s too much there after you pee, that can be a sign of a few things: Catheter: A nurse slides a thin, flexible tube called a catheter through your urethra (where pee comes ...

A catheter is a long, flexible tube that a doctor inserts into a blood vessel and then guides into your heart. Catheter ablation is a way to treat irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, like atrial ...

New catheter offers flexible tip and contact force technology to improve cardiac ablation procedures for AFib patients ...

The procedure sends heat or cold through thin, flexible wires (catheters) to the damaged heart tissue. The heat or cold destroys the tissue that causes the arrhythmia. Before cardiac ablation, you’ll ...

During the procedure, a thin, flexible catheter is inserted into an artery, usually in the groin or arm, and carefully guided through the blood vessels to reach the heart. A contrast dye is then ...