What is a surgical catheter?
Surgical catheter In its simplest sense is latex, silicon or polytetrafluorethylene tube inserted into the blood vessels, passages or cavities to allow different types of fluid or help to inject different types of fluids into the body. There are many types of surgical catheters. These surgical catheters vary in their size, as they are used and how they work. Two of the most common uses of the surgical catheter are the discharge of urine from the bladder and the diagnosis and treatment of the narrowing of heart arteries. It is a type of catheter for excess, which means it is inserted into the body. This type of surgical catheter can be left inside the bladder if necessary.
The catheter carries a small balloon at its end, which is filled with sterile water to help keep the surgical catheter in place in the bladder. The balloon is released to remove the catheter. Urine is an exhausted corpish bladder through the catheter Foley into a drainage bag outside the body.
Other types of bladder catheter are condom catheters and intermittent or short -term catheters. Condoms catheters are worn outside the body. The cover, like a condom, is worn over the male penis. The tube leading from the cover transfers urine to the drainage bag. The occasional catheter is a temporary catheter inserted into a human or woman's urethra to help drain the bladder.
Surgical catheters are also used in patients who have cardiac conditions. Catheters are used in angioplasty to determine whether the heart artery has been narrowed and whether the patient's heart valves function properly. In this procedure, the vagina is placed in the arm or foot of the patient. The catheter passes to the arteries. The material is then injected with a catheter and monitored as movedomors, valves and blood vessels.
If the heart artery is found to be narrowed, several types of catheters can be used to re -open the heart. Some surgical catheters are used to compress the fat settingsEnin against the walls of the artery by inflating the balloon at the end of the catheter, similar to the design of the catheter. Other types of surgical catheters at the end bear special blades that shave or grinding of fats outside the walls of arteries and extension of passages to the heart.