Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has designated a recall of a peripheral catheter system as class I, the most serious kind. Teleflex and ...

Teleflex Incorporated (NYSE:TFX) and its subsidiary Arrow International are recalling the ARROW Endurance Extended Dwell Peripheral Catheter System after reports of catheter separation or leakage. The ...

Medtronic has asked healthcare providers to immediately stop using more than 1 million catheters distributed across the U.S. and around the world after discovering a potential safety risk within the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While researchers of this study found “limited complications” associated with urgent-start peritoneal dialysis, ...

B. Braun Medical is recalling 43,026 blood administration sets after the company received complaints about the potential for leakage. The blood administration sets are used to administer blood from a ...

VA Palo Alto Health Care says its structural heart team has just achieved a national first, performing the Veterans Health ...

When chemotherapy drugs accidentally leak into the tissues surrounding your veins or catheter, it’s called extravasation. While it doesn’t happen very often, it’s a serious complication. Chemotherapy ...

Phlebitis and infiltration are complications due to intravenous (IV) therapy. They can cause swelling, pain, and changes in the skin around the IV insertion site. Treatment typically resolves symptoms ...

CHICAGO (March 26, 2012) — Two-year data show comparable death and durability for catheter-placed heart valves and open-heart surgery in very old and ill patients, according to research presented ...

Q: A 56-year-old nursing-home patient has been a paraplegic for many years following a motorcycle accident. She has a diversion colostomy and an atonic bladder. Despite use of the Foley catheter with ...