Visus-MG (urethral catheter)

2024: Product Announcement

In Russia, they developed and began to use the Visus-MG smart catheter for bladder drainage. This is the development of specialists from the Industrial Laboratory of Innovative Engineering Solutions of the Institute of Urology and Human Reproductive Health of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov, the press service of the university said in mid-April 2024.

If the urethral catheter was previously inserted blindly, then with Visus MG, doctors will be able to introduce the device under visual control. The novelty is equipped with a mini-camera, with the help of which doctors will be able to see all the features of the urethra to avoid injuries.

source = Sechenov University

This significantly reduces the risk of tissue damage, improves the quality of the procedures performed and allows you to achieve a more accurate and effective diagnostic result, first of all, as well as treatment. Thus, this catheter can be called a promising tool that can improve the quality of urological care, "urologist-andrologist, children's urologist-andrologist, leading specialist of the network of clinics" Family "Dmitry Bilenko told Izvestia.

According to Nikita Starodubtsev, a urologist at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases of the Federal Budgetary Institution of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, the use of Visus MG facilitates the catheterization of the bladder by a doctor and will exclude the impossibility of installing a urethral catheter with acute urinary retention on an outpatient basis. In some cases, the development will help avoid installing cystostoma, he added.

By mid-April 2024, clinical trials of the Visus MG urethral catheter are underway among patients with acute urinary retention. After these tests and the assessment of the effectiveness of the technology, the question of bringing medical development to a mass level will be raised.^[1]

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