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Urinary catheters are perhaps the most frequently used piece of urological technology and, after IV cannulas, are the most frequently deployed device in an acute hospital setting; typically, a fifth of the UK inpatients will have a urinary catheter in situ at any one time.
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Shackley, D. (2012). Urinary Catheters, Design, and Usage. In: Payne, S., Eardley, I., O'Flynn, K. (eds) Imaging and Technology in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2422-1_49
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