Urethral and Suprapubic Catheters

摘要: The need and ability to drain retained urine from the bladder has been recognised prehistoric times. Man’s ingenuity was nowhere better exemplified than in variety of materials objects used catheterise urethra. Reeds straws were commonly used. Chinese accomplished task with dried, rolled up, outer leaves a species onion. In eastern Mediterranean Sumerians, Babylonians Egyptians gold silver manufacture catheters. Metal catheters also recovered excavations at Pompeii. Galen devised an “S”-shaped catheter which indicated his clear understanding natural curves male