Caught a place for surgery in the US lacking a medical tube (8)
I believe the answer is:
catheter
'medical tube' is the definition.
(tube for removing urine from the body)
'caught a place for surgery in the us lacking a' is the wordplay.
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'place for surgery in the us' becomes 'theater' (US spelling of theatre, as in an operating theatre).
'lacking' is a deletion indicator.
'theater' with 'a' taken away is 'theter'.
'c'+'a'+'theter'='CATHETER'
(Other definitions for catheter that I've seen before include "Thin flexible tube to withdraw fluids from the body" , "Medical tube to remove waste from body - heart etc (anag)" , "Trace the strange tube used medically" , "Long, thin flexible tube for medical use" .)