ReviewJournal of medical engineering & technology2015
Urinary catheters: history, current status, adverse events and research agenda.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
The Feasibility and Advantages of Painless Indwelling Catheter in Uniportal Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Lobectomy of Lung Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study
Study: A Prospective Evaluation of the Blue Halo BioMedical, LLC "Blue Halo Coil Catheter" for Patients With Prostatic Obstruction
Effect of Video-Based Teaching on Urinary Catheterization Skills: Randomized Controlled Study
Two Single Arm, Multicentre Unblinded First-in-human Trials Investigating a Novel Ureteric Stent to Determine the Reduction of Encrustation, Biofilm Deposition and Complications Compared to a Conventional JJ Stent
Who cites it
123 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 322 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Efficacy of Open-Ended Urinary Catheters in Preventing Catheter-Related Bladder Discomfort: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association · 2025Trial
- Single-incision mini-slings versus standard synthetic mid-urethral slings for surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women: The SIMS RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2022Trial
- Draining Urinary Sediments Through Conventional Eyelet Catheters and New Intermittent Micro-Hole Zone Catheters.Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing : official publication of The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses SocietyTrial
- INtraVESical immunoTherapy (INVEST) prior to radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: trial protocol.BJU international · 2026Article
- Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction in ageing men with spinal cord injury.Nature reviews. Urology · 2026Review
- Villous adenoma of the urinary bladder with imaging findings suggestive of enterovesical fistula: A case report.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
- Fibrin-rich environment drives catheter-associated UTIs by suppressing macrophage defenses.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The unique Efg1 fungal virulence regulon in the catheterized bladder environment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Factors associated with catheter-related bladder discomfort and its correlation with urinary catheter-related pain after minimally invasive urological surgery: a retrospective cohort study.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2026Article
- Iatrogenic ureteric catheterisation during routine community catheter change resulting in obstructive uropathy, urosepsis and multi-organ failure: a case report.Urology case reports · 2026Article
- Transrectal ultrasound-cystogram versus X-ray-cystogram versus no cystogram: high volume retrospective study.Prostate international · 2026Article
- Phase-Dependent MoSInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Calling a Truce: Enterococcus faecalis as a mediator between E. coli and C. albicans during polymicrobial CAUTIs.Research square · 2026Article
- A Prospective Multicenter Randomized Study to Assess the Impact of a Novel Catheter Coating on Clinical Bacteriuria.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Fabrication of bioprints self-coated with thermally sensitive lactobacilli for CAUTI applications.European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V · 2026Article
- Guidelines for clean intermittent catheterization in children.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2026Review
- Smart Catheters for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Therapy.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Review
- A Mechanistic, Architecture-Dependent Study Combining Experiments and Molecular Dynamics to Explain AMP Release from GO-PEI Coatings.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
63 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2016
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
For more than 3500 years, urinary catheters have been used to drain the bladder when it fails to empty. For people with impaired bladder function and for whom the method is feasible, clean intermittent self-catheterization is the optimal procedure. For those who require an indwelling catheter, whether short- or long-term, the self-retaining Foley catheter is invariably used, as it has been since its introduction nearly 80 years ago, despite the fact that this catheter can cause bacterial colonization, recurrent and chronic infections, bladder stones and septicaemia, damage to the kidneys, the bladder and the urethra, and contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance. In terms of medical, social and economic resources, the burden of urinary retention and incontinence, aggravated by the use of the Foley catheter, is huge. In the UK, the harm resulting from the use of the Foley catheter costs the National Health Service between £1.0-2.5 billion and accounts for ∼2100 deaths per year. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the development of an alternative indwelling catheter system. The research agenda is for the new catheter to be easy and safe to insert, either urethrally or suprapubically, to be retained reliably in the bladder and to be withdrawn easily and safely when necessary, to mimic natural physiology by filling at low pressure and emptying completely without damage to the bladder, and to have control mechanisms appropriate for all users.
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