Advanced Medicine

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Urethra: Medical technology

Pezze probe is a probe developed by the French Michel Pezze born in 1853 died in 1917. This is a rubber tube designed to catheterize (penetrating inside) the urethra. Its end is turgid (swollen) thereby hold it in place inside the bladder. Pezze probe is also used for achieving a continent stoma in a cæcostomie or typhlostomie is to say the creation of an artificial anus in the caecum.

The candle Béniqué developed by the French Béniqué Pierre, born in 1806 and died in 1851, English Béniqué's sound was a metal catheter is characterized by a double curve designed to adapt to the path of the urethra . The candle Béniqué is used to treat narrowing of the urethra. Compared to the Charriere (Charrière was a manufacturer of surgical equipment) there is a difference in diameter between two consecutive numbers corresponding to one sixth of a millimeter. This is half the Charriere. To give an example of correspondence Béniqué number 30 corresponds to a No. 15 Charriere. Routinely and pragmatically we are not talking candle Béniqué but Béniqué all.

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