title: [CAT-guided percutaneous drainage of abscesses].
abstract: Drainage of percutaneous abscesses guided by Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) is a technique being employed more frequently all the time by Radiodiagnostic Services. Correctly put into practice by trained professionals, this procedure can prevent patients having to undergo another series of treatments which bear greater risks, to have a longer hospital stay, or even, depending on the case, to have to undergo an operation. Nurses in a radiological unit have an overwhelming role in every step of a percutaneous abscess drainage, a role which can not be carried out by any other personnel. To achieve being up to date in this technique and to perform our function as nurses in the use of this technique are the main objectives of this review.
authors.affiliation: Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería, Universidad de Almería.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Aguilera Manrique
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fernández Miranda
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: García Cáceres
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Franciso Moriana Maldonado
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Granero Molina
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aguilera Manrique
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000451:nursing*; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed