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Jean François Reybard (1795–1863) invented a self-retaining catheter, consisting of a device with two channels, one for draining the urine and the other to inflate a balloon close to the tip to retain the catheter in the bladder: Reybard : 1929: Development of the “modern” balloon-based self-retaining catheter.
The word “catheter” comes from Greek, meaning “to let or send down.” Catheters were used as early as 3,000 B.C. to relieve painful urinary retention. In those times, many materials were used to form a hollow catheter shape, including straw, rolled up palm leaves, hollow tops of onions, as well as, gold, silver, copper, brass, and lead.
Foley first described the use of a self-retaining balloon catheter in 1929, to be used to achieve hemostasis after cystoscopic prostatectomy. [2] He worked on development of this design for use as an indwelling urinary catheter, to provide continuous drainage of the bladder, in the 1930s.
Jul 5, 2022 · Foley catheter (1929) In 1929 Foley first described a self-retaining balloon catheter (haemostatic bag catheter). The purpose of the device was to provide simultaneous urethral catheter drainage of the bladder and hemostasis following transurethral resection of the prostate.
Jun 13, 2015 · A typical Foley catheter. This catheter is size 16 Fr. Its overall length is ∼400 mm and the volume of the fully-inflated balloon is ∼10 ml. The catheter has two channels. When the catheter has been inserted, the retaining balloon is inflated with sterile water from a syringe via the inflation connector and one of the channels.
- Roger C. L. Feneley, Ian B. Hopley, Peter Neil Temple Wells
- 2015
The modern retention balloon catheter was developed as a collaboration between Dr. Frederick E.B. Foley and Charles Russell Bard. Dr. Foley initiating used the catheter for post-prostatectomy hemostasis. Over time, the use of a balloon self-retaining catheter was used for the management of urinary incontinence.
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He also developed another self-retaining catheter with a little hook to retain the catheter in the bladder. Reybard also invented an urethral dilatator with mercury made of a sac or balloon fixed at the extremity of a catheter "a bout coupe" that permitted to inject mercury into the dilating balloon. Dr. Reybard died in 1863.
