Your kidneys are part of your urinary system and work to produce urine. Normally, the urine that is produced flows from the kidneys into a tube called a ureter. The ureter connects your kidneys to ...

A urostomy is an abdominal wall opening that allows urine to leave the body through a stoma. A nephrostomy is a temporary tube to drain urine directly from one or both kidneys. A urostomy takes the ...

Your kidneys make urine, a fluid made of liquid wastes filtered from your blood. This fluid travels down your ureter tubes to your bladder, and from there, it passes through the urethra and out of ...

A nephrostomy offers access to the kidney so urine can be drained when a retrograde approach is not possible. Nurses need to understand how to care for, and manage, patients with a nephrostomy, but ...

The company will also showcase Foley-Safe, the world's first Foley catheter stabilizer that actively reduces the chance of infections and prevents accidental extractions. DUSSELDORF, Germany, Nov. 4, ...

I’m looking forward to when my cancer is entirely gone, the nephrostomy is no longer needed, and I can pee like the rest of humanity again. My worst medical nightmare nearly came true. When I wrote ...

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Correlation between fatigue level and irradiated volume of the whole body, lung and heart in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery No significant ...

You have had a drain placed in your kidney, which you will need to care for until it is removed. This will include flushing the tube daily as well as cleaning the tube site and changing the dressing.

The company will also showcase Foley-Safe, the world's first Foley catheter stabilizer that actively reduces the chance of infections and prevents accidental extractions. Cathetrix will launch ...