Preparation before and after cardiac catheterization?

See to it that the private part was washed and clean of poofs and urine. Open povidone swabsticks , retract the labia and clean the urethral meatus 3 times with betadine before inserting the catheter.

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure in which a small tube (called a catheter) is inserted into an artery and passed into the heart. It is used to measure pressure in the heart and the amount of...

Cardiac catheterization (also called heart catheterization) is a diagnostic procedure which does a comprehensive examination of how the heart and its blood vessels function.

cardiac catheterization (heart cath), the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart

Under fluoroscopic guidance, a guide-wire (a thin wire that guides the catheter insertion) is threaded through a brachial or femoral artery to the heart