0 to put a catheter (= a tube) into someone's body to allow fluids to pass or to make a passage wider
The problem is even greater if there is immobility or faecal incontinence or the patient is catheterized.
In addition, it was our policy to catheterize the infants and children who underwent an arterial switch, usually one year or more after surgery.
Thus, as the overall numbers of catheterizations fell, those being catheterized as emergencies at night and on weekends became fewer.
We catheterized 111 patients after a mean of 16.9 months after surgery.
No patients were catheterized and a single sample of serum was collected at the end of the study time.
Patients were catheterized with the aid of an anesthesiologist.
The rationale for not treating asymptomatic bacteriuric catheterized patients is that the bacterial flora changes rapidly, and might be enhanced by antimicrobial therapy.
The ureter was catheterized so that pressure could be used for its distention.
