ZK 566 EN Resectoscopy

18 RUDOLF Medical ZK 566 EN_Rev. 05.2022 Resectoscopy Monopolar Accessories Monopolar Accessories Ordering no. Length Diameter 90-0311 3 m 3 mm Monopolar cable for resectoscopy, 2 mm female, SDS plug Ordering no. Length Sales unit 90-0312 176 x 122 mm 10 x 5 pieces Disposable neutral electrode EMED SAFE hydrogel, split, for adults and children, 110 cm 2 , 50 pcs. Ordering no. Length Plug 90-0313 3 m EU 6.3 mm Cable for disposable neutral electrode History of Transurethral Resection The prerequisites for Transurethral resection of the urinary bladder (TURB) as a surgical technique were created by the development of the electrically illuminated cystoscope by Max Nitze as of 1879. Nitze later also developed surgical cystoscopes and introduced cauterisation in the ablation of bladder tumours. Although Ambroise Paré was already ablating urinary obstructions with a sharp hollow probe through the urethra in the 16th century, modern transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) developed later than TURB. A precursor method of today‘s TURP was the transurethral punch resection of the prostate („cold punch“), introduced by Hugh Hampton Young (1870-1945) in 1909. George Luys performed the first coagulations of smaller prostate adenomas using radiofrequency current in 1913 (forage de la prostate). Max Stern (1873-1946) combined Young‘s punching instrument with a cystoscope and electric loop in 1926 and introduced the term resectoscope. He thus created the prototype of today‘s resectoscope. With the improvements made in 1931 by Joseph Francis McCarthy (1874-1965), the instrument became known as the Stern-McCarthy resectoscope. In the 1970s, the continuous resectoscope was popularised by José Iglesias de la Torre (1904-1979), but Iglesias‘ instrument was based on initially unnamed preliminary work by Hans Joachim Reuter (1923-2003) in cooperation with the Storz company. In 1986, Hultén and his co-workers introduced the addition of ethanol to the irrigation fluid during transurethral prostate resection and the measurement of the alcohol concentration in the patient‘s exhaled air for early detection of the amount of irrigating fluid that had been washed in. Wikipedia