rubber catheter

Nurse Dawson comes in early to sterilise some rubber catheters, but is interrupted by the demanding Colonel.

A rubber catheter which was a great improvement and relieved patients of the distress of tour de maître (catherisation with stiff implements).

Troja was the inventor of the natural rubber catheter and the author of several important works on the bone remodeling: the first edition was published in Paris in 1775.

There are many types of catheters commonly used, including common red rubber catheters, stiff Tomcat catheters, soft and flexible Cook catheters or semi-rigid "Slippery Sam" catheters.

He inserted a short artery tube into the lower end of the arm and tied it in place, and pushed the rubber catheter into the upper end for several inches and made it secure.

Modern siliconised tubes are less irritant than the old rubber catheters with the consequence that the walling off of the tract from the peritoneal cavity by fibrous tissue is less effective and more prone to leakage.

The exchange had to be done in small amounts at a time, over many day, because a newborn's blood vessels are tiny, making transfusion difficult, and likely to produce clots with the steel needles and rubber catheters available at the time.