Malecot Catheters

The process of the catheter is catheterization. Also used in body piercing parlors. Distinguish soft catheters (which are made from plastic materials, such as rubber or plasticized polyvinyl chloride) and rigid catheters (eg, metal). We can distinguish vascular and bladder catheters. The latter include the widespread urethral urinary catheters, intended for installation in the urethra channel to drain the bladder, where this is not the natural way. Also, catheters percutaneously installed in other cavities: the gall bladder (holetsistosstomiya), pelvis kidney (nephrostomy), the same urinary bladder (cystostomy), as well as unnatural in the cavity for draining and draining - cysts, abscesses, hydatid bubbles and other vascular catheters to include central and peripheral venous and arterial cannulae.

They are intended for the introduction of drug solutions into the blood (or blood collection in these or other purposes - for example, for detoxification) and installed cherezskozhno. As the name implies, peripheral catheters installed in the superficial veins (most commonly the veins of limbs: basilica, cephalica, femoralis, as well as veins hands, feet, babies - the superficial veins of the head), and central - in the large veins (subclavia, jugularis). There is a technique of catheterization of the central peripheral veins of access - are also used very long catheters. All catheters require fixation. Almost always done fixing the catheter to the skin patch, with special braces or suture material. It is also used in the oral fixation of the catheter by changing its shape after the introduction (this applies to non-vascular abdominal catheters): Inflatable balloon system loop (pigtail, a closed loop, a mini-pigtail), the system Malecot, system Petzer, etc.