It was updated on May 29, 2024. When designing machines, an understanding of anatomical terms such as medial and lateral, proximal and distal, and superior and inferior are helpful to know.

The phalanges are made up of the distal phalanges at the tip, middle phalanges, and proximal phalanges, closest to the metatarsals.

DIPRA study compares distal & proximal radial artery access for cardiac catheterization. Findings show comparable efficacy & lower risk of occlusion.

ATLANTA — Thirty-day hand function did not differ following distal radial artery access compared with proximal radial access PCI, researchers reported.According to the results of the DIPRA ...

Distal radial artery access for PCI showed no significant change in hand function and similar rates of access-site bleeding and radial artery occlusion at 1 year vs. proximal access, a speaker ...

Note: distal and proximal skin temperature increased in parallel after lights out. However, without sleep, proximal skin temperature followed the CBT rhythm.

Fewer than 1 in 15 US patients undergoing elective CAS are treated using proximal rather than distal embolic protection, according to a registry study published in the April 2015 issue of JACC: ...