Scientists at Aston University in Birmingham have developed a new technique to eradicate life-threatening urinary tract infections among hospital patients needing catheters, potentially saving the NHS ...

Medical extrusion providers are increasingly expected to produce complex, close-tolerance tubing that meets the functional design requirements of minimally invasive stent- and catheter ...

Anaheim, Calif. — A Conair/Davis-Standard/Zumbach collaboration coextruded 1.4-millimeter-diameter catheter tubes in a demonstration of extrusion, sizing/cooling, gauging, cutting and quality control ...

New York, Jan 8 (IANS) US researchers have designed a new type of catheter tube, optimised by novel artificial intelligence (AI) technology, that impedes the upstream mobility of bacteria, without the ...

The pieces are finally coming together for vascular device startup Catheter Connections. CEO Vicki Farrar said the four-year-old company has secured new patents this summer, hired a new vice president ...

A new device that uses soundwaves to ‘shake’ away bacteria could protect thousands of hospital patients from painful and potentially life-threatening bladder infections. The innovation will offer hope ...

Endotracheal tube exchange is an important part of airway management in patients in intensive care units, operating theaters, and emergency departments. 1,2 In most cases, the procedure involves the ...

Bugs can easily enter the bladder when the catheter is inserted - or track up the tube to the bladder via a "bio-film" - a thin slime filled with bacteria - to the warm wet environment of the bladder ...