It’s a scene that often plays out in countless emergency rooms: a patient with an immediate medical concern makes a late night trip to the emergency room only to wait and wait, watching minutes turn to hours as they wait for their name to be called and to be seen by an emergency room doctor. While going to the ER…
Month: August 2018
Having Bladder Problems? Consider Intermittent Catheters
Having Bladder Problems? Consider Intermittent Catheters Up to 25% of hospitalizations will require the placement of a Foley catheter which is an indwelling catheter that helps pass urine through the bladder during a hospital stay or surgery. For more than 3500 years, urinary catheters have been used to drain the bladder when it fails to empty. Catheter-Associated urinary tract infections…
Is Urgent Care a Good Place to Take a Sick Child?
The average American child will catch somewhere between six and 10 colds each year. A stuffy nose is not typically a cause for concern. It’s the other symptoms often associated with the common cold that can cause a parent to panic. All too often, an unwell child can cause a parent to run to the nearest pediatrician’s office. When your…
