What Is a Chest Tube? A chest tube is a plastic tube that is used to drain fluid or air from the chest. Air or fluid (for example blood or pus) that collects in the space between the lungs and chest ...

A dilation and curettage procedure, also called a D&C, is a surgical procedure in which the cervix (lower, narrow part of the uterus) is dilated (expanded) so that the uterine lining (endometrium) can ...

What Is the Maze Procedure (Surgical Ablation)? If you have an irregular heartbeat caused by atrial fibrillation (AFib), you may need surgery to restore your normal heart rhythm. This is called the ...

A Watchman is a device that can help prevent blood clots from leaving the heart. However, the procedure to insert the device carries its risks, including cardiac tamponade and ischemic stroke. The ...

One hundred and twenty-one subjects randomly selected from all patients referred for intravenous urography during a six-month period constituted the control group, which was divided into 61 ...

Hartmann’s procedure (clinically referred to as proctosigmoidectomy) is a surgery that takes on inflammatory conditions and cancer of the colon. It’s most often used to treat complicated cases of ...

When encountering the “Procedure Entry Point Not Found” error in Windows, you typically see a pop-up message indicating that a specific function could not be ...

The Tenex Procedure is a nonsurgical procedure developed and trademarked by Tenex Health. It helps patients with chronic tendon pain - tendinosis or tendinitis. By using ultrasonic frequencies — or ...

A Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) may be necessary to treat cancer of the pancreas, chronic (long-term) pancreatitis, cholangiocarcinoma (a cancer in the bile duct), and more. A Whipple ...