Inserting a 4-Fr catheter into a 6-Fr guiding catheter—the so-called mother-child technique—greatly improves the success rate for treating lesions in which standard methods have failed. The “4-in-6” ...

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure that provides information on how well the heart is working. To perform this procedure, a healthcare professional inserts flexible tubing into the heart through a ...

The use of antimicrobial-impregnated catheters should be considered in all circumstances, especially when the institutional rate of catheter-related bloodstream infections is higher than 2 percent, ...