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When the catheter is energized, the body conducts the energy from the catheter's tip, through the heart and to the electrode on the skin's surface, completing the circuit.
Selective catheter placement involves guiding a catheter to a specific target area within the body, such as a particular blood vessel or organ. Nonselective catheter placement, on the other hand, does not have a specific target and may involve placing a catheter in a more general location within the body, such as a vein or artery. Selective placement is often used for targeted procedures, while nonselective placement may be used for more general purposes like fluid administration or monitoring.
At the same time as the catheter is inserted, a second electrode is placed on the patient's skin.
Selective catheter placement
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Suprapubic catheterization or suprapubic cystostomy, for placement of a suprapubic catheter.
cables, and disposable supplies such as electrode patches, pressure transducers, a pulmonary artery catheter (Swan-Ganz catheter), and an arterial blood saturation probe
No, a thoracotomy is incision in the chest for surgery
It is an outdated Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) for catheter placement.