The earliest American invention of the flexible catheter was during the 18th century.

A mandrin is a metal guide for flexible catheters.

A balloon is placed at the end of a flexible catheter, which is inserted into the artery.

The Symplicity renal denervation system consists of a generator and a flexible catheter.

To make these daily attacks on his brother's loins less painful, Franklin ran to his local silversmith with plans for a flexible catheter.

Then he would place the stiff wire inside a flexible catheter and use a heat-fixation method to permanently shape the catheter.

Through a small flexible catheter, the doctor can obstruct the veins so that the increased pressures from the abdomen are no longer transmitted to the testicles.

Antithrombotic agents may be administered directly onto the clot in the vessel using a flexible catheter (intra-arterial thrombolysis).

With the advent of thin flexible catheters, continuous infusion and repeated injections have become possible, making epidural anesthesia a highly successful technique to this day.

Dr. Franklin's flexible catheter was made of metal with segments hinged together in order for a wire enclosed inside to increase rigidity during insertion.

Navigation is facilitated by an electromagnetic tracking system that detects a position sensor incorporated into a flexible catheter advanced through a bronchoscope.

An intermittent catheter/Robinson catheter is a flexible catheter used for short term drainage of urine.

In the latter, a flexible catheter is passed via the femoral or radial arteries and advanced to the heart to identify blockages in the coronaries.

Describing his actions aloud, Dr. Gupta made a small incision in Ryan's jugular vein and introduced a thin, highly flexible catheter.

Extending his inventiveness to his family's medical problems, Benjamin Franklin invented the flexible catheter in 1752 when his brother John suffered from bladder stones.

Catheter ablation involves advancing several flexible catheters into the patient's blood vessels, usually either in the femoral vein, internal jugular vein, or subclavian vein.

A small incision is made in the patient's groin and a flexible catheter is guided into the liver through the femoral artery in the leg up to the tumor sites.

Here is how they kill you: they run a flexible catheter equipped with electrodes up to your heart through your femoral vein, which is most easily accessible through your groin.

The Sensei Robotic Catheter System and Artisan Control Catheter allow physicians to navigate flexible catheters with greater stability and control during complex cardiac arrhythmia procedures.

Heart Technology withdrew the device - a small, flexible catheter with a diamond-coated burr that spins at up to 190,000 r.p.m. - from field use, modified its manufacturing process and resubmitted its request for approval.

Epidural anesthesia involves the insertion of a hollow needle and flexible catheter into the space between the spinal column and outer membrane of the spinal cord (epidural space) in the mid- or lower back.

In angioplasty, a very small incision is made in the groin area and a long flexible catheter fitted with a deflated balloon is threaded through an artery into the aorta until it reaches a blocked coronary artery.

According to a footnote in his letter in Volume 4 of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1959), Benjamin Franklin credits Francesco Roncelli-Pardino from 1720 as the inventor of a flexible catheter.

Ben can be counted on to invent a glass harmonica, a cure for gout, a flexible catheter, or a persuasive reason for making love to older women, should the need for any of those suddenly arise, as at least some of them are bound to, on our long journey.

The device shuts down if the impedance is more than 1000 ohms, the muscle temperature exceeds 99 C, or the mucosal temperature exceeds 49 C. The flexible catheter has a 30-Fr bougie tip and a balloon basket assembly with four 22-gauge, 5.5-mm-long, radially placed electrodes.