Supply food, catching the tube

Usage examples of catheter.

When you took into consideration the special catheter and microfilament neural fibres for direct input to her spinal column, it was well worth the price she paid for the custom fit.

The problem was that nurses were not allowed to cut or replace the tape around her catheter.

A box wrapped with Western Peds gift-shop paper sat on the counter, next to a coil of catheter tubing and a stack of insurance forms.

IV nurse slid his transparent catheters into the carotids and jugulars in preparation for the dangerous interlude between bodies when the heart-lung machine would have to take over.

Intravenous drips fed nutrients into their veins, and catheters carried everything else away into grimy jars.

She made sure that the suction machine was in position with plenty of Toronto catheters and that there was a tracheotomy mask handy in case she should need one, together with dilators, a spare tube and scissors.

Christina went on duty feeling extremely self- conscious and then was considerably heartened by a visit from Beryl, come to borrow some catheters, who declared that she looked quite super and on no account was she ever to go back to her old ways.

Sieske, who knew her way around, was busy with the oxygen cylinder, fitting on the tube and mask and putting the catheters ready.

Two middle-aged women who looked more like charladies than nurses moved unhurriedly along the rows of cots, checking the catheters and IVs, emptying and filling where necessary, but otherwise paying the children no attention.

There was no anesthesia, meaning that the catheter was surely not in the space where spinal anesthesia was given.

There was another touchy moment when the IV nurse slid his transparent catheters into the carotids and jugulars in preparation for the dangerous interlude between bodies when the heart-lung machine would have to take over.

Christina went on duty feeling extremely self conscious and then was considerably heartened by a visit from Beryl, come to borrow some catheters, who declared that she looked quite super and on no account was she ever to go back to her old ways.

She'd resisted all attempts to get her on her feet, balked at nourishment, refused to use a bedpan, pulled out catheters and feeding tubes, flung her pills at the nurses, and sabotaged her physical therapy.

Under local anesthetic, a thin, flexible catheter was passed up the femoral artery in the leg, to the aorta, and fi­nally to the celiac axis, a network of arteries com­ing off the aorta to supply blood to all the upper-abdominal organs.

The catheter bag which dangled below the chair on a chrome coathook was filling with an oily bilious liquid.