KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Staff at a Kansas City veteran's medical center caused a man to contract a blood infection and die after improperly inflating a catheter, according to a federal lawsuit filed by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 13 Investigates spoke with two men who both saw thousands of dollars of questionable charges on their Medicare accounts from the ...

HOLLEY, N.Y. – Scott Merritt received letters from Medicare detailing bills for catheters he never ordered or received, amounting to thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges. Berkeley Brean, ...

image: Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in ...

When a male patient is in need of a catheter, “Bigger is better for boys.” For example, if a patient has known benign prostatic hyperplasia and you try an 18F catheter without luck, go a size or two ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of 1,196 tunneled catheters placed in nephrology services that use antibiotics, four resulted in bloodstream ...