Category: Medical Procedures

Neonatal care or newborn care is the care given to a newborn infant from the time of delivery through about the first month of life. In pediatric nursing, neonatal care

An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a specialized medical device designed to examine the heart's rhythm and administer an electrical shock to individuals experiencing ventricular fibrillation in order to restore

Debridement is the medical removal of a patient's dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic

Urinary catheterization or Urethral catheterization is a process in which a urinary catheter (such as a Foley catheter) is either inserted through a female patient's urinary tract into their bladder

In medicine, a lumbar puncture (colloquially known as a spinal tap) is a diagnostic and at times therapeutic procedure that is performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal

Tubal ligation (or "tying the tubes") is a surgery to close a woman's fallopian tubes. These tubes connect the ovaries to the uterus. A woman who has this surgery can

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure that uses chest compressions and artificial ventilation to maintain blood flow and oxygenation during a cardiac arrest, when the heart stops beating or