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Staff at the emergency department there started adapting the disposable male urinal bottle for women to use, lessening the need for catheters and making life more dignified and pain-free in hospital.

The risk of infection is especially high for patients with catheters, breathing tubes or feeding tubes because they create direct entry points for C. auris to enter the bloodstream or lungs.

It involves threading a catheter through the thigh’s femoral artery, behind the heart through the carotid artery and into the skull.

Even small and relatively inexpensive prescription medical goods such as urinary catheters can be onerous to find, especially in an emergency, the actress said.

Then the six fibers, along with an extra fiber to boost the calcium signal's measurement, were incorporated into a 2.5-millimeter-thick catheter to create a cerebrospinal fluid sensing system.