Saturday 14 January 2017

How An HS Catheter Works

By Mark Williams


Medical equipment are often used in examinations, especially for hard to reach and sensitive areas of the body. They are a necessity that most accept as part of medical procedures. The equipment in question are of the physical sets of check ups for the narrower spaces of internal organs.

Uterine pathology can be accessed with the help of such equipment. This most helpful part of the process is called the HS catheter, used in the preliminary process that is part of Sonohysterography, also known as Hysterosalpingography. They help provide the means of mapping out the conditions in the uterus and related organs.

The terms that apply are very technical in the medical sense, but the article will try to couch these in more common and easily understood language. The most important terms need to be relayed but they are part of explanations that describe the catheter in layman terms. The usability of the product is only for preliminary support process, within the scope of a magnetic resonance type exam.

Medical technology has created such important use for what is a quite simple thing, that is needed to track the health of the feminine genital area. The experts in the field all agree that had there been better and non invasive ways, they would certainly be used, however the use of catheters is currently the most viable. In the future, there might not be a need for them.

The entire process where catheters are used is MRI style scanning, and the first thing done should be the injection of dyes, otherwise known as contrast media, by catheters for internal monitoring done by complex machines. Actually there the procedure is an MRI scan specific to the uterine area. The preliminary procedure using catheters make the scan possible.

Dyes are of several types, used for specific areas like the uterus or the fallopian system, and tasked to visualize the conditions of these. Finer tubes are not viable, the HS being the finest that can be used for accessing the more restricted internal areas. The tubes form the main artery of exact delivery systems that make a scan perfect, actually not a true visual program but a visual map created by magnetic echoes.

The echoes or resonance are tracked by a computer aided machine, that maps out the areas where the contrast media or dyes have accessed. These dyes are targeted for certain areas that are either affected or a system that needs to be checked out. Thus one dye can be for the way some vital chemicals process flows through the uterus.

Of course, there are certain types of equipment in use, because there are related procedures that need specific sizing. A specialist team does the actual physical exam and handles the monitoring system, and a doctor oversees the entire process, important in tracking changes and complications that arise.

The tubes are not hard to make or expensive, but exact specifications need to be addressed. This makes the standards very high for the companies that make them. They can be bought over the counter or direct from the factory, but then hospitals usually cover these items, and they are listed down specific for HMO insurance.




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