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Good advice? Yes and no. An angiogram is the gold standard of heart tests, and in Clinton's case it picked up a problem that all his previous stress tests and electrocardiograms had missed. But an angiogram is not something to be taken lightly. It involves injecting a dye directly...
The CDC recommends that if you have a urinary catheter inserted, you should be sure to ask how soon it can be removed. Although often necessary, catheters account for 40% of hospital-acquired infections. Your odds of developing an infection increase with each day a catheter is in place.
Nearly 10% of Americans who are admitted to a hospital pick up an infection while they are there. Sometimes the culprit is a germ that they've brought with them to the hospital--typically some bacteria on the skin that follow the path of a needle or catheter into the...
The corkscrew The most direct approach to fighting stroke is to break up the blood clot that is causing it; the risk is that the clot will break into smaller particles that then lodge deeper in the brain. At the meeting last week, researchers reported that a tiny corkscrew device...
Over the span of one year at Children’s Hospital, a seizure went unmonitored, a patient did not receive enough antibiotics, a catheter was inserted into the wrong kidney and blood pressure was not checked closely during surgery, according to reports in The Boston Globe.