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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' with a non-retractile [[foreskin]] in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] frequently presents unique issues caused by the poor training and lack of knowledge of North American health care providers, who do not know how to insert a catheter when the boy has an [[intact]] foreskin. Such providers may attempt premature [[forced foreskin retraction]] to the harm of the boy or even demand that the boy be [[circumcised]] to permit catheter insertion. | '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' with a non-retractile [[foreskin]] in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] frequently presents unique issues caused by the poor training and lack of knowledge of North American health care providers, who do not know how to insert a catheter when the boy has an [[intact]] foreskin. Such providers may attempt premature [[forced foreskin retraction]] to the harm of the boy or even demand that the boy be [[circumcised]] to permit catheter insertion. | ||
This problem does not occur in other advanced nations where health care providers are trained in the care of [[intact]] boys. | This problem does not occur in other advanced nations where health care providers are properly trained in the care of [[intact]] boys. | ||
Carmack & Milos (2017) identified the issue with intact boys and provided all necessary information on the technique of installing a catheter in an intact boy.<ref name="carmack2017">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Carmack | |||
|first=Adrienne | |||
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|last2=Milos | |||
|first2=Marlilyn F. | |||
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|title=Catheterization without foreskin retraction | |||
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|journal=Can Fam Physician | |||
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|date=2017-03 | |||
|volume=63 | |||
|issue=3 | |||
|pages=218-220 | |||
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|pubmedID=28292801 | |||
|pubmedCID=5349724 | |||
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