A tracheostomy tube helps you breathe after tracheotomy surgery, which creates a stoma (an opening) in your neck. A laryngectomy tube keeps a stoma open during healing. Tracheotomy and laryngectomy ...

External urinary catheters are less invasive than internal catheters, which drain urine from your bladder via a thin tube inserted into your urethra (Foley catheter) or via a small incision in the ...

What Is a Feeding Tube? A feeding tube is a flexible plastic tube placed into your stomach or bowel to help you get nutrition when you’re unable to eat as well as you need to. Tube feeding, also known ...

A gastrostomy tube, or “G-tube,” provides access for long-term enteral nutrition in patients who are unable to eat. Gastrostomy tubes may be required in patients with cancer, stroke, traumatic brain ...

Endotracheal tube exchange is an important part of airway management in patients in intensive care units, operating theaters, and emergency departments. 1,2 In most cases, the procedure involves the ...

ExtruMed LLC (Placentia, CA) has acquired catheter balloon, shaft, and multi-lumen tubing extruder Innovative Extrusions LLC (Livermore, CA), saying the deal expands its capabilities and presence in ...