TY - JOUR
T1 - Sounds and Charrière
T2 - The rest of the story
AU - Bowen, Diana K.
AU - Wan, Julian
AU - Engel, Rainer
AU - Lyon, Richard P.
AU - Dielubanza, Elodi
AU - Bloom, David A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Journal of Pediatric Urology Company.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Parisian cutler Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière (1803-1876) contributed greatly to surgical disciplines with innovative tools, but his legacy is the gauge system he developed in 1842 that is still used for catheters, probes, and dilators. Sounding devices have been documented in the surgical armamentarium since 3000 BC, with practitioners such as Hippocrates, Galen, Celsus, and Al-Zahrawi espousing theories on sounding and the related topics of stones and urinary obstruction. The medical revolution in 19th-century Paris propelled technology and one of the most influential men involved was Charrière, who pioneered diverse technical processes in the manufacturing of surgical instruments, led one of the largest instrument manufacturing companies, and improved on tools introduced by predecessors including his mentor Guillaume Dupuytren. Most importantly he created the catheter scale that, despite not being favored in its country of origin, became an international standard and is known today as the French system. The classification of sounds, catheters, and bougies has undergone many variations throughout the years, but the French scale still holds in current medical practice as an accurate and nearly universal sizing tool.
AB - Parisian cutler Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière (1803-1876) contributed greatly to surgical disciplines with innovative tools, but his legacy is the gauge system he developed in 1842 that is still used for catheters, probes, and dilators. Sounding devices have been documented in the surgical armamentarium since 3000 BC, with practitioners such as Hippocrates, Galen, Celsus, and Al-Zahrawi espousing theories on sounding and the related topics of stones and urinary obstruction. The medical revolution in 19th-century Paris propelled technology and one of the most influential men involved was Charrière, who pioneered diverse technical processes in the manufacturing of surgical instruments, led one of the largest instrument manufacturing companies, and improved on tools introduced by predecessors including his mentor Guillaume Dupuytren. Most importantly he created the catheter scale that, despite not being favored in its country of origin, became an international standard and is known today as the French system. The classification of sounds, catheters, and bougies has undergone many variations throughout the years, but the French scale still holds in current medical practice as an accurate and nearly universal sizing tool.
KW - Catheter scale
KW - Charrière
KW - History
KW - Urethral sounds
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.04.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.04.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 24942595
AN - SCOPUS:84917680494
SN - 1477-5131
VL - 10
SP - 1106
EP - 1110
JO - Journal of pediatric urology
JF - Journal of pediatric urology
IS - 6
ER -