No restriction of oral food intake prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization is as safe as the current traditional NPO [nothing by mouth] strategy, results from a large, single-center, randomized ...

Background: The optimal population rate of cardiac catheterization is unknown. One potential way to determine it would be to examine whether there is a population rate beyond which the yield of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are generally instructed to follow nothing by mouth, or NPO, before ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was just as safe as fasting.

Atrium Medical Center is located in a community the size of Middletown and not a metropolitan city, but that doesn’t indicate the scope of its services, said Dr. Mouhamad Abdallah, medical director of ...

Holding patients NPO before cardiac catheterization procedures was not safer but did come with costs, a randomized trial showed. No restrictions on oral intake didn't increase the risk of the primary ...

Folks undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures to diagnose heart problems may be able to safely skip the traditional pre-op fasting that's now the norm, new research shows. "Just as our ...

Routine catheterization during minor gynecologic surgeries is associated with more than double the rate of UTIs compared with procedures without catheterization. Among 762 patients undergoing minor ...

Samaritan Medical Center has begun construction on a $12 million cardiac catheterization lab, the first of its kind in the ...

Shreveport, La. — After three years of construction, Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center officially unveiled its newly remodeled cardiac catheterization lab with a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...