The average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day at home. Roughly 70 percent of this use occurs indoors. Nationally, outdoor water use accounts for 30 percent of household use yet can be much higher in drier parts of the country and in more water-intensive landscapes.
Cardiac catheterization. Overview. Cardiac catheterization (kath-uh-tur-ih-ZAY-shun) is a procedure used to diagnose and treat cardiovascular conditions. During cardiac catheterization, a long thin tube called a catheter is inserted in an artery or vein in your groin, neck or arm and threaded through your blood vessels to your heart. Using this catheter, doctors can then do diagnostic tests as part of a cardiac catheterization.
The risks of cardiac catheterization procedures include having a heart attack, a stroke, a severe arrhythmia, blood clots that may travel to the leg or brain, infection, bleeding especially where the catheter goes into the body or allergies such as an allergic response to the contrast dye.